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

Alfred Hitchcock

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
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

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