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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Character Himself Motivational
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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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
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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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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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Cook Film Oppression Woman
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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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Book Poor Reading
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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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win

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