A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSelf-plagiarism is style.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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