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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

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Design Film One Liner
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
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Nice Sex Woman Young
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
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
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Best Victim
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
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
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Character Himself Motivational
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Emotion Function Ourselves

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