I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Luck 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.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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