Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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