I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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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 no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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