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"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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"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."
Man

"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."
Work

"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."
Life

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing

"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.'"
Motivational

"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
Media

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God

"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure

"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism

"Self-plagiarism is style."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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