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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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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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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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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