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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Humor Myself Value
Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Design Film One Liner
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Best Himself
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Ideas Live People Time
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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Change Habit Invention Media People
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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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Art Audience Body History Myself
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
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
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
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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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense

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