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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
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.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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

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

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