The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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, 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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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 always take the audience into account.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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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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