You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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