There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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