Ideas come from everything.
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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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 not much into rear window ethics.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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.
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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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