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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
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
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
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
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time

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