I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is something more important than logic: imagination.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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 have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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