I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDialogue 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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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