Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIt’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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