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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKHappiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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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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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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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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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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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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