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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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 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
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
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
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
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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Best Himself
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward

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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