Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKGive them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDisney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA 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 HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDialogue 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 HITCHCOCKTo make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKCary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKYou think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIt’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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