For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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