Alfred Hitchcock Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Like Love, Murder, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film Directing, Directors, Documentary Films

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Way, Film

• Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Writing, Giving, Wake Up

  Asbury Park NJ Press, On audiences, August 13, 1974.

• To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Directors, Three, Needs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Believe, Mind

• I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, Body, Film

• In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Directors, Fiction, Documentaries

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

• In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Reality, Men, Murder

• 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

  Eye, Film Directing, People

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

• Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Mean, Cutting

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hero, Good Luck, Coward

• The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film

• A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cooking, Watches, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

• I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Beautiful, Thinking, White

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• [When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Daughter, Mother, Appreciation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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