San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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