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

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
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
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking

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