Alfred Hitchcock Famous Quotes



"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.'"

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.


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