In a good marriage each is the others better half.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKMystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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