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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
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
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

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