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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’

Alfred Hitchcock

Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Failure Money Myself
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
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

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’

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