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Everything’s perverted in a different way.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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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Money Myself Power
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
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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Ideas Live People Time
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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
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
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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 length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim

Everything’s perverted in a different way.

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