Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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.’
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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