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 HITCHCOCKFilm your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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