Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKFor me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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