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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
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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Nice Sex Woman Young
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
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 always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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
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
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
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
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
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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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young

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