Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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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.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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