Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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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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