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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSan Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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