I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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