I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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