Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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