I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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