I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIt’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I always take the audience into account.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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