I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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