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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Best Victim
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
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
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
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
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Death Feeling Hate
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
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
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
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
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual

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