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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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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 picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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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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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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