Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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 lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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