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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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
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 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
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
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
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film 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

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

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