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 HITCHCOCKMystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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 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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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