The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKLuck 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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