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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
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
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
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 Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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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Difficult Kill Men Reality
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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