Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKPeople 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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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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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