If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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