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Cinematographer Inspirational Quotes (3175)

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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock
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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I never said all actors are cattle what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.'
Alfred Hitchcock
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
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When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.
Alfonso Cuaron
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Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
Alfonso Cuaron
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The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
Alfonso Cuaron
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As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.
Alfonso Cuaron
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Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
Alfonso Cuaron
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