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

Alfred Hitchcock

You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Endurance Funny Human Movie
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
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
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
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Funny Literature One Liner
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
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
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
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love 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
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
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Myself Wasted Time Work
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
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
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
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
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
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Funny Husband Ideal Marriage Wife
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Crime Goodness Myself Victim
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic

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

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