8 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Storytelling

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on storytelling

10. 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.

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

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

19. Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

21. Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

30. 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.

33. 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.

39. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.