Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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