I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKReally, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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