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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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 no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
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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Character Himself Motivational
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing

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