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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

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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Nice Sex Woman Young
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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
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
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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Money Myself Power
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
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

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