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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIt seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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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’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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