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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
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
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film 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
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
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
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

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