Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for 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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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