Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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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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