Top 100 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
#1. I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
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#6. It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
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#8. I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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#10. Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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#11. The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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#12. Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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#13. I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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#15. I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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#16. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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#18. A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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#19. In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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#20. To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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#21. 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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#22. Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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#24. When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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#25. Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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#26. Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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#27. 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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#28. I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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#29. Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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#31. A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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#32. Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.
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#33. I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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#36. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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#37. Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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#38. Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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#39. The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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#41. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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#42. T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
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#43. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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#46. 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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#48. Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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#49. This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
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#50. 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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#51. I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
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#52. In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
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#54. There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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#56. A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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#58. In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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#59. One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#65. All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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#66. People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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#67. 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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#68. I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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#69. The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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#70. 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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#72. 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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#73. San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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#75. A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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#76. It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
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#79. 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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#80. Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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#81. 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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#82. Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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#85. 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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#87. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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#88. For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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#89. I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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#90. Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
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#91. Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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#92. Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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#93. 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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#95. I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes ... have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
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#96. 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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#98. This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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#100. For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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