Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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