Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as ‘The Master Of Suspense’, he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well-known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). In 2012 Vertigo replaced Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute’s greatest film ever made. By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favorite, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year. May these Alfred Hitchcock Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.” Alfred Hitchcock
2. “There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.” Alfred Hitchcock
3. “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Alfred Hitchcock
4. “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” Alfred Hitchcock
5. “If you can’t do it naturally, then fake it.”Alfred Hitchcock
6. “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
7. “Puns are the highest form of literature.” Alfred Hitchcock
8. “The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.” Alfred Hitchcock
9. “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
10. “There is something more important than logic: imagination.”Alfred Hitchcock
11. “The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.” Alfred Hitchcock
12. “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” Alfred Hitchcock
13. “Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.” Alfred Hitchcock
14. “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
15. “Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.”Alfred Hitchcock
16. “I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” Alfred Hitchcock
17. “Love those wrongdoers; they need it more than you.” Alfred Hitchcock
18. “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
19. “Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.” Alfred Hitchcock
20. “In a good marriage each is the others better half.”Alfred Hitchcock
21. “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.” Alfred Hitchcock
22. “Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.” Alfred Hitchcock
23. “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.” Alfred Hitchcock
24. “I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.” Alfred Hitchcock
25. “I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.”Alfred Hitchcock
26. “The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” Alfred Hitchcock
27. “A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.” Alfred Hitchcock
28. “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” Alfred Hitchcock
29. “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” Alfred Hitchcock
30. “People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.”Alfred Hitchcock
31. “When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.” Alfred Hitchcock
32. “I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.” Alfred Hitchcock
33. “Never turn your back on a friend.” Alfred Hitchcock
34. “Ideas come from everything.” Alfred Hitchcock
35. “If I won’t be myself, who will?”Alfred Hitchcock
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