Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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