"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
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"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
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"It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid."
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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."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema"
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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."
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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?"
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"There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
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"I like stories with lots of psychology."
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"I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well."
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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."
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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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."
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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."
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"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
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"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."
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"Self-plagiarism is style."
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"A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up."
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