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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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