Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Ideas come from everything.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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