I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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