The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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