The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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