Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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 must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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