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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Alfred Hitchcock

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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
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
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
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
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
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
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real

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