Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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 woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I always take the audience into account.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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