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Alfred Hitchcock

I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Character Himself Motivational
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
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
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering

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