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 HITCHCOCKOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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