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.'
- Alfred Hitchcock
Motivation, Say, Your, Actor
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Films, Feature Films, Director
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Audience, Director, Made, Typed
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Cake, Me, Piece, Slice
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Movies, Lot, Mine, Slice
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Revenge, Sweet, Fattening
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Movies, Related, Bladder, Directly
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Tears, Actor, Like, Casting
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Television, Like, Same Thing, Button
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Award, Fellow, Dealers, Celluloid
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Pig, Sound, Purity, Asthmatic
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Some, Tenderness, Been, Kitchen Table
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.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Small, Next, Here, Policemen
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Television, Habits, Like, Invention
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Perfect, Cut, Throat, Sore
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Luck, Good Luck, Threshold, Frightened
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.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Mind, Happen, Whatsoever, Scruples
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
- Alfred Hitchcock
I Am, Provide, Public, Shocks
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Nothing, Very, Burial, Tidy
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.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Sound, Tell, Other, Just Something
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Snow, Like, Shows, Blondes
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Interesting, Will, Very, Paperback
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Interesting, Will, Very, Paperback
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Television, Need, Spreading, Psychiatry
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Science, Next, Compulsion, Order
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Anticipation, Only, Terror, Bang
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Drama, Cut, Bits, Dull
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Drama, Cut, Bits, Dull
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Picture, Villain, More, Successful
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Kind, Crystal, Like, Complications
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Theatre, Movies, Babysitter, Dinner
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Give, Same, Wake, Nightmare
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.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Give, Will, Some, Commercials
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.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Audience, Still, Perfectly, Good Movie
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Work, Want, Waste, Minute
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 Hitchcock
Always, Very, Films, Messy
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Afraid, Against, Them, Police
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Only, Get, Films, Rid
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Never, Like, Treated, Said
Self-plagiarism is style.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Style
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Movies, Always, Suffer, Audience
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Funny, Brought, Belongs, Television
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