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'The stuff dreams are made of.' Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon 'True Love Is To Be Two And Yet One, A Man And A Woman Blended As Angels, Heaven Itself.' The Shop Around The Corner 'A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.' Citizen Kane 'In a mad world only the mad are sane.' Akira Kurosawa 'When you wish upon a star your dreams come true.' Pinnochio 'If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.' Stanley Kubrick 'I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.' Stanley Kubrick 'A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.' Stanley Kubrick 'If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.' Orson Welles 'A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.' Orson Welles 'The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.' Orson Welles 'I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.' Orson Welles 'I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.' Orson Welles 'I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.' Orson Welles 'Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.' Orson Welles 'I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.' Orson Welles 'A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.' Orson Welles 'Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.' Alfred Hitchcock 'Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.' Alfred Hitchcock 'Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.' Alfred Hitchcock 'A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.' Alfred Hitchcock 'I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. 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 - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.' Alfred Hitchcock When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: 'I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock) , and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.' Alfred Hitchcock '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 '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.' Alfred Hitchcock 'Self-plagiarism is style.' Alfred Hitchcock 'In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.' Alfred Hitchcock 'In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.' Orson Welles 'A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.' Orson Welles 'The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.' Orson Welles 'The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.' Orson Welles 'A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.' Orson Welles 'The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.' Orson Welles 'The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents....' Orson Welles 'My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.' Orson Welles 'As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.' Orson Welles 'One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden...Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.' Orson Welles 'We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.' Orson Welles 'Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better.' Stanley Kubrick 'Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.' Stanley Kubrick 'If you really want to communicate something, even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.' Stanley Kubrick 'A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.' Stanley Kubrick 'Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.' John Ford 'You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.' John Ford