días de cine (5)

"...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. The next factor is the tecnique of film-making, and its connection, I am against virtuosity for its own sake. Tecnique should enrich the action. One doesn't set the camera at a certain angle just because the cameraman happens to be enthusiastic about that spot. The only thing that matters is wether the installation of the camera at a given angle is going to give the scene its maximum impact. The beauty of image and movement, the rhythm and the effects -everything must be subordinated to the purpose..."

Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock by François Truffat, Revisited edition)