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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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
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
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
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
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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
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
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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

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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