The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSeeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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 so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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.’
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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