A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKActually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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