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 HitchcockRead
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Interpretation
Hitchcock suggests that his distinctive style influences audience expectations, even in familiar narratives.
Alfred Hitchcock's quote highlights how his unique filmmaking style, characterized by suspense and psychological thrillers, alters audience perceptions. By mentioning 'Cinderella', he illustrates that if he were to direct a well-known tale, viewers would anticipate a darker twist or an unexpected element, showcasing his knack for subverting traditional stories and creating tension.
In practice
In a film studies class, discussing the impact of directorial style on storytelling.
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.
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.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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.
There is something more important than logic: imagination
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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