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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
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
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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 feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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
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
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 only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim

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