The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIt’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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 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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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