In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKAll love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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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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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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