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 HITCHCOCKI’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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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People 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 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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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