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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI always take the audience into account.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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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