The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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