The best Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

The best Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. Amonst others, he directed The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), and The Birds (1963).

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Happiness is a clear horizon - nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive... I think hatred is wasted energy, and it's all non-productive.

Hatred Creativity

When people today say I'm 70, I say that's a confounded lie. I'm twice 35, that's all. Twice 35.

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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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In a good marriage each is the other's better half.

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I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

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Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

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Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

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The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

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You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

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Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

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The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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Hate burns fast and bright, and it might make you feel empowered for a while, but eventually it consumes whatever vessel it fuels.

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There's a type of hatred that's similar to longing. It's impossible to stop.

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Creativity is limitless - for better or worse.

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I'd prohibit boring people. In my opinion, there is nothing worse. The people who were boring should be in prison and be forced to learn to be creative with the other prisoners.

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Creativity Craziness & Weirdness

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

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Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

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A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

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