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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
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
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
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
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
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
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
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
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
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
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

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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