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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
I like stories with lots of psychology.
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Film Myself Psychology Story
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
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 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
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Creation Emotion Function Ourselves

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