Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKGive them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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