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Alfred Hitchcock

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
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
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
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
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
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
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

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