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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

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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 ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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
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
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
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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
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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