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 HITCHCOCKConversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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