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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
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
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
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay

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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