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

Alfred Hitchcock

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Drama Life Writing
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 picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
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
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Death Kill Love Yourself
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
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
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

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