Alfred Hitchcock Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"". 1984.
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“Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
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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.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.
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“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.”
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“One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.”
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“In a good marriage each is the others better half.”
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“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.”
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“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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“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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“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”
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“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
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“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”
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“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”
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“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
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“Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
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“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
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“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
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“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
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“I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.”
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“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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“I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.”
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“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
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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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“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
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“Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
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“To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.”
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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