You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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Ideas come from everything.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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