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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
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
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
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

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