Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKCary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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When 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.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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