The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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I always take the audience into account.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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