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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature 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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife

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