Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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