Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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In 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.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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