The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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