The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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