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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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