The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I always take the audience into account.
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