"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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"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."
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"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
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"Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions."
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"Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time."
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"Puns are the highest form of literature."
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"Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out."
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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"If I won't be myself, who will?"
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"Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal."
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"People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels."
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"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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"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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"In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings."
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"I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious."
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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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"Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them."
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