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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Alfred Hitchcock

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Comedy Film Myself
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Enemy Food Wine
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Book Poor Reading
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
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 would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Best Man Myself
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Change Habit Invention Media People
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Nice Sex Woman Young
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself

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