If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSan Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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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I always take the audience into account.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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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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