I always take the audience into account.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEven my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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