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There is something more important than logic: imagination.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
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
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
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
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

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