When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script. … - Alfred Hitchcock

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What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on now and still hear something new. It's still relevant. That's how I want my music to be perceived. It's what I strive for.

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. '

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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

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It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.

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