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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise

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