The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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