One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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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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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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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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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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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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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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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