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Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

  • 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.