Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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