San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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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