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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Film Myself
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Act Animal Funny Sarcastic
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
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
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Money Myself Power
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
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

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