Alfred Hitchcock Quotes - Page 4

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• Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Years, Making Money

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

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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

  Crazy, Order, Years

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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

  Music, Men, Pigs

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• I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Book, Fiction, Scene

  "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho". Book by Stephen Rebello, 1990.

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• Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Simple, Kitchen, Tables

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• There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Simple, Sea

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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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

  Blessed, Eye, Winning

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• Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hate, Hatred, Feelings

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• Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Witty, Smart

  In Observer 19 Dec. 1965

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• I always take the audience into account.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Audience, Accounts

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• [When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Daughter, Mother, Appreciation

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

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• I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eggs, Frightened, Revolt

  News summaries, December 31, 1963.

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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

  Crystals, Calm, Quiet

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Long, Should, Bladder

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• I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Shock, Beneficial

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• One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Catholic, Last Words, After Death

  Last words, 1980.

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Two, People, Fifty

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, People, Wife

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

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• All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Rooms, Scene, Dressings

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

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Lasts, Next

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

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• Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Actors, Whole Life, Grants

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

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• I'm not much into rear window ethics.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Ethics, Window, Rear Window

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• The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Bird, Made, Motion Pictures

  Movie trailer for the film "The Birds"., 1960.

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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Directors, Fiction, Documentaries

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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