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

Alfred Hitchcock

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Need Stupidity
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama Life Writing
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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
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
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
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
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
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
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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

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