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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

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
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
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Audience Enjoyment Music Myself
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
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
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
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
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
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
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
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
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner

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