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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
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
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

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