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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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