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. Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote
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.’ Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote
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. Alfred Hitchcock Read Quote