You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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.’
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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.’
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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