In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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