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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself

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