Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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