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Inspirational Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock
- There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
- To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
- Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
- In a good marriage each is the others better half.
- Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
- One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
- For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
- Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
- Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
- I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
- Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
- There is something more important than logic: imagination
- 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…
- Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
- A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
- There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
- Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
- The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
- I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
- I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
- Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
- Ideas come from everything
- You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
- If I won't be myself, who will?
- Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento