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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKMan does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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