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 HITCHCOCKI am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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I always take the audience into account.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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