I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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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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