Best Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock (Top 10)
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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 Hitchcock
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock
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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred Hitchcock
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If I won't be myself, who will?
Alfred Hitchcock
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
Alfred Hitchcock
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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 Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Self-plagiarism is style.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.'
Alfred Hitchcock