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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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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Death Funny Sarcastic
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
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
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
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
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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
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
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
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
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection

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