The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen 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.’
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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