In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKReally, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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