Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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