This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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Ideas come from everything.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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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 always take the audience into account.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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