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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.

Alfred Hitchcock

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 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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
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

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