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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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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Money Myself Power
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
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 never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim

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