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 HITCHCOCKA 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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