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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

Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
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
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
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
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
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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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