To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWe 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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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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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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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