Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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