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

Alfred Hitchcock

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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
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
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
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
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

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