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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
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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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
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
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
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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
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

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