Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKPeople 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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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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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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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