The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSomeone 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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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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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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