I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not much into rear window ethics.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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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