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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock |
| Quote #1: | "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.'" |
| Quote #2: | "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop." |
| Quote #3: | "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." |
| Quote #4: | "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." |
| Quote #5: | "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." |
| Quote #6: | "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." |
| Quote #7: | "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." |
| Quote #8: | "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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