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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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
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
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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 enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself

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