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Quotations by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockWhen they wake from a nightmare - Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.  

The length of a film should be. . . - The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I've never been very keen on. . . - I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

Dialogue should simply be. . . - 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.

Fear isn't so difficult to understand - 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.