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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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 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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself

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