I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSelf-plagiarism is style.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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