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.
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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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