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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.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 582 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 257 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 307 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 321 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 299 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 302 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder': As you have seen on the screen; the best way to do it is with a scissor.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 100 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 129 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 149 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 386 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 137 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 523 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 100 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 105 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 114 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 125 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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