Alfred Hitchcock? Leonard Lyons? François Truffaut? Steven Rattner? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Thrill master Alfred Hitchcock made a brilliant observation about storytelling requiring the excision of “dull bits” or “boring bits” from a narrative. Would you please help me to find a citation that presents the precise phrasing for this remark? Quote Investigator: In 1956 …