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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Alfred Hitchcock

You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
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
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
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
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
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
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
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
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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
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
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

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