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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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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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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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