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In a good marriage each is the others better half.

Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
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
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
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
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness

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