I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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