"It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on."
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Alfred Hitchcock quotes (page 6 of 6)
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"I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim."
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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."
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"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid."
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"You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!"
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
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"The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film."
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"The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made."
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"Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat."
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"I always take the audience into account."
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"There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game."
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"To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be."
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"I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder"
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"I'm not much into rear window ethics."
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"That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen."
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"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 with a scissor."
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