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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

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Life Myself
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Need Stupidity
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
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Myself Surprise

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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