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 HITCHCOCKDrama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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