For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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