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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Food Life Myself Pieces
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Director Film God
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
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Design Film One Liner
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Comedy Film Myself

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