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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
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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Nice Sex Woman Young
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
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
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics

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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