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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
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
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself

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