Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKClaude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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