Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
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Film Directing
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Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director, Screenwriter
"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
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"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."
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"Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly."
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"Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good."
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"The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar."
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