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 HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
-
-
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
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 -
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK