The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I always take the audience into account.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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