Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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 me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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