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Alfred Hitchcock

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
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
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
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman

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