Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
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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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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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Cook Film Oppression Woman
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
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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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
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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Nice Sex Woman Young
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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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Character Himself Motivational
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity

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