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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Art Film Food Price Worth
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Book Poor Reading
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need

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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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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