I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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.’
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I always take the audience into account.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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