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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
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
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
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
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
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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
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

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