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

Alfred Hitchcock

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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
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
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
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
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
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
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
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
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
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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics

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

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