Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, was an English film director and producer, at times referred to as "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 August 1899
CityLondon, England
Alfred Hitchcock quotes about
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.'
Ideas come from everything
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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.
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.