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Everything’s perverted in a different way.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
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
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
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
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
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing

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