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| Alfred Hitchcock
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. Actors are cattle.Actress Mary Anderson: "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?" "My dear, you're sitting on it."Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.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. Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. 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.I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. 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. In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. 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. In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.Never judge a country by its politiciansOne must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. Self-plagiarism is style.Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. 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. This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.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.'You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer. |
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