To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDisney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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