I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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When 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.’
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Ideas come from everything.
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