If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIf it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKLuck 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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOne never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKAlways make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDialogue 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 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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEverything’s perverted in a different way.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn 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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKYou think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKMan does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSeeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn 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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