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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOne never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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