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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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’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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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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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’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Ideas come from everything.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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 good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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