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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
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
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Character Himself Motivational
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
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
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim

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