The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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