For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKKicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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