"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." -- legendary film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock (8/13/1899 - 4/29/1980), known as the "Master of Suspense" for his six decade-long production of film and television masterpieces. Films like "The Lady Vanishes," "Suspicion," "Rear Window," "Psycho," "Dial M for Murder," "North by Northwest,", "The Birds," "Vertigo" and TV's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" are a few examples of his genius and popularity.
Sir Alfred certainly filled that white rectangle in the theater and more with the smartest, well-crafted and suspenseful films in motion picture history.
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