If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThis award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Ideas come from everything.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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 a good marriage each is the others better half.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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 am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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