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Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineǃ

— 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.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

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.

Hitchcock (1967)

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