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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational

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