People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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