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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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 have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Ideas come from everything.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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