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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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
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
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
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’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.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
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

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

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