I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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