I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of 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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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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