For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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