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. |
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. |
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director |
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. |
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life. |
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life. |
Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him. |
Revenge is sweet and not fattening |
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. |
Self-plagiarism is style. |
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. |