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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

Alfred Hitchcock

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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 like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Best Man Myself
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
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
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Emotion Function Ourselves

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