Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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