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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Director Film Need
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
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
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
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Excitement Imagination Suspense Woman
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Film Myself Scare
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

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