A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI always take the audience into account.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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