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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

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
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
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
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
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
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
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay

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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