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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
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
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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Ideas Live People Time
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
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
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Love Romance Sex
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret

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