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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
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
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
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need

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