Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCHe who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943