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 HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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