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

Alfred Hitchcock

To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie

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