Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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