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

Alfred Hitchcock

Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
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
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
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
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
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
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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself

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

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