To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKReally, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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