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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 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
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
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
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
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
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
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
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story

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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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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