The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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 glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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