English - Director | August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
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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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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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