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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
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
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
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
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
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
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity

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