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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Alfred Hitchcock

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
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
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
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
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value

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