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 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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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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