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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film 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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
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
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
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
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense

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