Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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