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 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.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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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.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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