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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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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.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.

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.

Hitchcock (1967)

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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