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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

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 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
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
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Nice Sex Woman Young
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
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
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
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
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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay

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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