Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
~ Ralph Richardson

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~ John LeCarre

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
~ Don Marquis

Never judge a book by its movie.
~ J.W. Eagan

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
~ Wilson Mizner

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyn West