The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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