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.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I always take the audience into account.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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