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I always take the audience into account.

Alfred Hitchcock

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
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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Money Myself Power
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
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
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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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Character Himself Motivational
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet

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