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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Life Love Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama Perspective Real
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Life Myself
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
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
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Myself Scare
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Ideas Live People Time
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Death Kill Love Yourself
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
Ideas come from everything.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Change Habit Invention Media People

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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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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