Alfred Hitchcock Quotes About Film
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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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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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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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Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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