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 HITCHCOCKWhen 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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