Ideas come from everything.
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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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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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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