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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Alfred Hitchcock

It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
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
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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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Book Poor Reading
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself

You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

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