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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
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
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
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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
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
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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

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