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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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