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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

Alfred Hitchcock

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
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
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
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
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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 was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

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