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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
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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Death End Hope Oneself
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking

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