In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOne must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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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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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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