One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSelf-plagiarism is style.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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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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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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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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