Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFilm your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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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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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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 never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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