Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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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 not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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I always take the audience into account.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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