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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not much into rear window ethics.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Ideas come from everything.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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