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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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 more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money 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
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
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
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
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
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Nice Sex Woman Young

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