Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Ideas come from everything.
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