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Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
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
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
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
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity

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