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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
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
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic

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