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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

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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different 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
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.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
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

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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