I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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