Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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 always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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