The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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