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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
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
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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

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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