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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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
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
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
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
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
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
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
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
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
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself

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