"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."
-Alfred Hitchcock
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"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.“
-Alfred Hitchcock
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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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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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