The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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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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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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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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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