To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKGive them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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