In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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