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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim

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