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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
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.
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.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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.
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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.
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.