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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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