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 HITCHCOCKActually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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