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If I won’t be myself, who will?

Alfred Hitchcock

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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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
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
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
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
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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