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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
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
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
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
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
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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

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