If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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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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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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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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When 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.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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