The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOne must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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