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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Character Himself Motivational
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
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
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
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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Ideas Live People Time
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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

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