Alfred Hitchcock

    Alfred Hitchcock

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    • “If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a pretty clear idea of what was going on.”
      Directing#sound#audienceSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
      Directing#editingSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “Self-plagiarism is style.”
      DirectingSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
      Directing#directing#documentarySource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”
      DirectingSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
      DirectingSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “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.”
      Acting#acting#screenwritingSource: brainyquote actor
    • “I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
      Acting#actingSource: brainyquote actor
    • “Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.”
      Acting#actingSource: brainyquote actor
    • “In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.”
      Cinema#storytellingSource: goodreads cinema

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