Alfred Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.'”

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

“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.”

“I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.”

“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.”

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”

“I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”

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

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

“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.”