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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
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
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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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
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
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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