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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

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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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
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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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
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.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man

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