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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
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
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
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best 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

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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