Quotes about Film by Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock English film director

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.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film

Actors are cattle.

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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

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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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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

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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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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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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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In reference to the murder scene in “Dial M for murder”: As you have seen on the screen; the best way to do it is with a scissor.

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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film