I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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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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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 never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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