There is something more important than logic: imagination.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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