Great quotes from film directors

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Why not start with a handful by the greatest of them all? Mr. Alfred Hitchcock!

"You don't need to go to a film school to learn how to make movies. I never did. You want to learn how to make films? Rent every one of Alfred Hitchcock's pictures and watch them carefully..."
- William Friedkin

"I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there and it has to be filled".
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Film your murders like love scenes, and your love scenes like murders".
- Alfred Hitchcock

"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

"Our primary function is to spark an emotion. Our secondary function is to sustain that emotion".
- Alfred Hitchcock

"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

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints".
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Two people will not always reveal their inner thoughts to one another, but the eyes will always reveal what they are really thinking".
- Alfred Hitchcock