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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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
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
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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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Death Funny Sarcastic
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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Difficult Kill Men Reality
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself 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
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

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