It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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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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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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