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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
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
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
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces

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