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Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound

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