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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
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.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense 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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
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
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
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay

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