I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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’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 always take the audience into account.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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