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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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 always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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