“Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
On audiences, Asbury Park NJ Press (13 August 1974).
“It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life.”
Variant: I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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