I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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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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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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