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

Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
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
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity

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