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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
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
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
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
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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
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
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine

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