I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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