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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
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
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
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
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
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking

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