I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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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.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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