Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKClaude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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