If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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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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