The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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