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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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