In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Ideas come from everything.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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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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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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