Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKPeople 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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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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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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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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