For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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 have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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A 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.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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