When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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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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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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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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