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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Alfred Hitchcock

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Myself Scare
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
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself

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