Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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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 never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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