I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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