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 HITCHCOCKGive them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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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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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I always take the audience into account.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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