I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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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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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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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