I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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