I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSelf-plagiarism is style.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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