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 HITCHCOCKKicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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