Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I always take the audience into account.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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