Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
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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Blessing Eyes Win
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity

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