Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA 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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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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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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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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