Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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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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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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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.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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