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

Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics 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
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
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare

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