Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not much into rear window ethics.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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