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

Alfred Hitchcock

You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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 has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Death Funny Home Smart
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
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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Character Himself Motivational
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Film Pay
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
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
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

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