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/ page 925 of 1205 /Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
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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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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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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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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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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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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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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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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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