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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

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
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
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
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
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 make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
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
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
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
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself

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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