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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
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
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
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
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 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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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
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
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place

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