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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKBlondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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 only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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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, 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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