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

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
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
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
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
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity

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

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

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