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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

Alfred Hitchcock

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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 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
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
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
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

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