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

Alfred Hitchcock

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
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
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Character Himself Motivational
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Death Kill Love Yourself
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
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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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

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

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