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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.

Alfred Hitchcock

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
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
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
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
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine

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