Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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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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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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