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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

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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’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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
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
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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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Death End Hope Oneself

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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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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