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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

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
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
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film 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
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
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
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music 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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