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Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

1. "In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose.I saw their point at once." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
2. "A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
3. "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
4. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
5. "I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
6. "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
7. "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
8. "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
9. "Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
10. "Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
11. "Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
12. "The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
13. "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
14. "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
15. "Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
16. "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
17. "You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!" ~ Alfred Hitchcock
18. "A great story is like life with the dull parts taken out." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
19. "Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
20. "If you can't do it naturally, then fake it." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
21. "A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can't bear quarreling, I can't bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it's all non-productive. I'm very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they're close to me, hurts me for days. I know we're only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you're going to create something — I think that's as happy as I'll ever want to be." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
22. "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." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
23. "Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima" ~ Alfred Hitchcock
24. "I am a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
25. "A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
26. "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
27. "I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
28. "Ideas come from everything" ~ Alfred Hitchcock
29. "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
30. "Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
31. "Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."Anthony Perkin's Norman BatesTalking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
32. "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
33. "Revenge is sweet and not fattening." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
34. "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
35. "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
36. "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
37. "Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
38. "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
39. "The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
40. "If I won't be myself, who will?" ~ Alfred Hitchcock
41. "I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
42. "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
43. "I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim." ~ Alfred Hitchcock

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