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.
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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I always take the audience into account.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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