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

Alfred Hitchcock

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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
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
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value

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