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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

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
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself

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