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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 was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Men Myself Young
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Death Funny Sarcastic
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.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Character Himself Motivational
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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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
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’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
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
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

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