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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
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
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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
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
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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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
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
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
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

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

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