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" I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. "
Alfred Hitchcock
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" When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' "
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" 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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" In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. "
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" Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. "
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" Revenge is sweet and not fattening. "
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Fattening
Sweet
" The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. "
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" Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. "
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Simple
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" There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. "
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" Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. "
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" 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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" 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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Sound
People
Eyes
" Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. "
Alfred Hitchcock
Television
Home
Funny
" 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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Go
" Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. "
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Give
Pleasure
Same
" For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. "
Alfred Hitchcock
Cake
Cinema
Slice
" The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. "
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Villain
Successful
Picture
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. "
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Television
Done
Information
" A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. "
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Cake
Slice
Movies
" I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one. "
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Scared
Children
Good
" There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. "
Alfred Hitchcock
Simple
Tidy
Quite
" Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. "
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Possible
Much
" 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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People
House
Change
" 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. "
Alfred Hitchcock
Winning
Eye
Blessed
" The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. "
Alfred Hitchcock
Make
Way
Rid