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’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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I always take the audience into account.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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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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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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