Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSeeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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 only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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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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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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