There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIf I won’t be myself, who will?
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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