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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
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.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking

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