One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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 American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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