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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 HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock 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.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock There is something more important than logic: imagination.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock I like stories with lots of psychology.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock I always take the audience into account.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
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