Everything’s perverted in a different way.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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’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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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