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 HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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