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 HITCHCOCKEven my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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