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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward

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