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

Alfred Hitchcock

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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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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
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
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
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.
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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking

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

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