Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDisney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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