When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Ideas come from everything.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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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.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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