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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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.’
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Character Himself Motivational
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual

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