Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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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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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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I always take the audience into account.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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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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