The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKNever judge a country by its politicians.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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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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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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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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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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