Alfred Hitchcock Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Stupidity, Style, Needs

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962), 1960.

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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Revenge, Fattening

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Inspiring, Self

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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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

  Fear, Children, Yesterday

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Piano, Enjoy, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Emotion, Function, Primaries

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Relationship, Men, Imagination

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• Never turn your back on a friend.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Turns

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• Ideas come from everything

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Ideas, Mind, Body

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Encouragement, Doe, Meals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Ideas, Good Movie, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Art, History, Directors

  1956 In Newsweek,11 Jun.

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• Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Useless, Purchasing Power, Concerned

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• The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cinema, Silent, Form

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Murder, Happens

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• I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cutting, Perfect, Cures

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cooking, Watches, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Years, Trying, Three

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• I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Humor, Men, Doors

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• Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Buttons, Toasters, Television

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• Everything's perverted in a different way.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Different, Way, Different Ways

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Food, Wine, Enemy

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• For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Suspense, Balanced, Ifs

  Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb (1997). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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• Puns are the highest form of literature.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Literature, Form

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1972.

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