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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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 never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears

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