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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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