Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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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