Sabotage

Ted Spencer: What the idea, sir? What’s the point of all this wrecking?
Superintendent Talbot: Making trouble at home to take our minds off what’s going on abroad. Same as in a crowd, one man treads on your toe and while you’re arguing with him, his pal picks your pocket.
Ted Spencer: Who’s behind it?
Superintendent Talbot: Ah, they’re the people, you and I will never catch. It’s the men they employ that we’re after.

Vladimir - Paymaster: You made London laugh. When one sets out to put the fear of death into people, it is not helpful to make them laugh. We are not comedians.
Karl Anton Verloc: It’s not my fault if they’re such fools.
Vladimir - Paymaster: Londoners are not fools. They laughed because they realized what happened last night was laughable. They had a right to laugh... this time.

Mrs. Verloc: Just one happy little family...

Mrs. Verloc: He is the kindness, most harmless, home-loving being...

Superintendent Talbot: Is that girl psychic? She said that Verloc was...
Detective: Dead, sir? You don’t need second sight in a case like this.
Superintendent Talbot: But she said it before... Or was it after?.. I can't remember.

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To Catch a Thief

& Danielle: I’ve always dreamed of going to South America. People say it’s a virgin country. I can cook, sew, keep my mouth shut and peddle stolen jewels on the black market...

& John Robie: Insurance. That’s gambling, isn’t it?
    H.H. Hughson: Well, shall we say betting?

& John Robie: Well, then let’s come to an understanding. I’m doing you a favor. I take all the risks, you get all the jewelry back.
    H.H. Hughson: Mr. Smith, it strikes me that only an honest man would be so foolish.

& H.H. Hughson: You’re a man of obvious good taste in... Well, in everything. How did you... I mean, why did you...
    John Robie: You mean, why did I take up stealing?
    H.H. Hughson: Yes.
    John Robie: Oh, to live better, to own things I couldn’t afford. To acquire this good taste which you now enjoy, and which I should be very reluctant to give up.
    H.H. Hughson: Oh, you mean you were frankly dishonest?
    John Robie: I tried to be.

& John Robie: Hughson, in this business, you can’t do things the honest way.

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& Danielle: But what has she got more than me, except money?!

& John Robie: Why don’t you own a place like this?
    Frances: Palaces are for royalty. We’re just common people with a bank account.

& Frances: Now, here comes some of the clever part. You’re just not convincing, John. You’re like an American character in an English movie. You just don’t talk the way an American tourist ought to talk.
    John Robie: Don’t you know that all the guidebooks say, «Don’t behave like a tourist»?
    Frances: Well, it’s just that you never mention business or baseball or television or wage freezes or Senate probes.
    John Robie: All the things I left America to forget.
    Frances: You’re just not American enough to carry it off.

& Frances: Some nights, a person doesn’t need to drink...

& John Robie: I thought you might like to see a real, live burglar in action...
    Frances: Will it be dangerous?
    John Robie: Not for tourists.

& Frances: So this is where you live. Oh, Mother will love it up here...

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Shadow of a Doubt

& Ann Newton: I’m trying to keep my mind free of things that don’t matter, because I have so much to keep on my mind. Innumerable things.

& Young Charlie: Oh, I don’t believe in good intentions anymore. All I’m waiting for now is a miracle.

& Ann Newton: Mama, you don’t have to shout... Really, Papa. You’d think Mama had never seen a phone. She makes no allowance for science. She thinks she has to cover the distance by sheer lung power.

& Young Charlie: Mrs. Henderson, do you believe in telepathy?
    Mrs. Henderson: Well, I ought to. That’s my business.
    Young Charlie: Oh, not telegraphy. Mental telepathy. Like... Well, suppose you have a thought, and suppose the thought is about someone you’re in tune with. And then across thousands of miles, that person knows what you’re thinking about and answers you. And it’s all mental.
    Mrs. Henderson: I don’t know what you’re talking about. I only send telegrams the normal way.

& Herbie Hawkins: You can talk all you like about Sherlock Holmes. That little Frenchman beats them all.
    Joseph Newton: I read it. Air bubbles don’t necessarily kill a person. Those writers from the other side get too fancy. The best way to commit a murder...
    Herbie Hawkins: I know. I know. Hit them on the head with a blunt instrument.
    Joseph Newton: Well, it’s true, isn’t it? Listen. If I wanted to murder you tomorrow, do you think I’d waste my time on fancy hypodermics? Or on inee?
    Herbie Hawkins: What’s that?
    Joseph Newton: Inee. Indian arrow poison. Listen. I’d find out if you were alone, walk in, hit you on the head with a piece of lead pipe or a loaded cane...
    Herbie Hawkins: What’d be the fun of that? Where’s your planning? Where’s your clues?
    Joseph Newton: I don’t want any clues. I want to murder you. What do I want with clues?
    Herbie Hawkins: Well, if you haven’t got any clues, where’s your book?
    Joseph Newton: I’m not talking about writing books. I’m talking about killing you!
    Herbie Hawkins: If I was going to kill you, I wouldn’t do a dumb thing like hitting you on the head. First of all, I don’t like the fingerprint angle. Of course, I could always wear gloves, press your hands against the pipe after you were dead, and make you look like a suicide... Except it don’t seem hardly likely that you’d beat yourself to death with a club... I’d murder you so it didn’t look like murder.

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& Uncle Charlie: What’s the use of looking backward? What’s the use of looking ahead? Today’s the thing. That’s my philosophy. Today.

& Mr. Saunders: I believe you told me you owned the house?
    Emma Newton: Own it? It owns us. It seems to me no sooner do I get one thing fixed, then something else gets broken. And then it needs fresh paint and the...

& Young Charlie: You know, your picking us as an average family kind of gave me a funny feeling.
    Jack Graham: What kind of a funny feeling?
    Young Charlie: Oh, I don’t know. I guess I don’t like to be an average girl in an average family.
    Jack Graham: Average families are the best. Look at me. I’m from an average family.

& Emma Newton: Wine for dinner. Sounds so gay!

& Young Charlie: Oh, what’s the matter with you two? Do you always have to talk about killing people?
    Joseph Newton: We’re not talking about killing people. Herb’s talking about killing me, and I’m talking about killing him.
    Emma Newton: It’s your father’s way of relaxing.

& Uncle Charlie: You think you’re the clever little girl who knows something. There’s so much you don’t know. So much!
    What do you know, really? You’re just an ordinary little girl living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there’s nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night, you sleep your untroubled, ordinary little sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams...
    And I brought you nightmares.

& Uncle Charlie: You live in a dream. You’re a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you’d find swine? The world’s a hell! What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something!

& Young Charlie: Mother ... always losing things.
    Jack Graham: All mothers lose things. Someday, she’ll be losing you...
    Young Charlie: Mothers don’t lose daughters, don’t you remember? They gain sons.

& Jack Graham: I like it when you laugh. I like it when you don’t. I guess I like you whatever you do. I guess I like you.

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Rope

& Brandon: Nobody ever feels really safe in the dark. Nobody who was ever a child, that is.

& Brandon: I’ve always thought it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.
    Phillip: Out of character for him to be murdered, too.
    Brandon: Yes, wasn’t it? But good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don’t they?

& Phillip: All right! You’re perfect.
    Brandon: We have to be, Phillip. We agreed there was only one crime either of us could commit. The crime of making a mistake. Being weak is a mistake.
    Phillip: Because it’s being human?
    Brandon: Because it’s being ordinary.

& Brandon: It’s only a piece of rope, Phillip. An ordinary household article. Why hide it?

& Brandon: Now the fun begins...

& Brandon: Rupert’s extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read, but actually can think?

& Rupert: Man’s honor was at stake. And personally, I think a chicken is as good a reason for murder as a blonde, a mattress full of dollar bills, or any of the customary, unimaginative reasons.
    Mrs. Atwater: Now, you don’t really approve of murder, Rupert, if I may?
    Rupert: You may, and I do.

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& Rupert: Think of the problems it would solve. Unemployment, poverty, standing in line for theater tickets.
    Mrs. Atwater: I must say, I’ve had a perfectly dreadful time getting tickets for that new musical, what’s it called? You know. «The Something,» with what’s her name?

& Rupert: Oh, no, sorry. Knives may not be used on hotel employees. They are in the «death by slow torture» category. Along with bird lovers, small children, and tap dancers. Landlords, of course, are another matter.

& Phillip: Cat and mouse! Cat and mouse! Which is the cat and which is the mouse?

& Rupert: It’s odd the way one can pyramid simple facts into wild fantasies, isn’t it?

& Rupert: Brandon, I’m tired. And in a way, I’m frightened, too.

& Rupert: ...now I know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in.

& Phillip: They’re coming.

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The Wrong Man

& Manny: You look just about perfect to me. If evolution can produce you, it’s doing pretty good. I don’t think we ought to complain about a few impacted teeth now and then.

& Rose: Oh, I didn’t know you liked horses.
    Manny: It’s the arithmetic I like, honey. I guess it’s the musician in me. You know, musicians are always fascinated by mathematics. They can’t read, but they can figure.

& Bob: It says here Mozart wrote it when he was five. So I should be able to play it. I’m eight.
    Greg: I’m five, so I should be able to write it.

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& Mama Balestrero: What did you pray for?
    Manny: I prayed for help.
    Mama Balestrero: Pray for strength, Manny.

& Manny: This awful nightmare we’ve been through, it’s all over now.
    Rose: That’s fine for you.
    Manny: ... It’s not good for me if it isn’t good for you.

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Psycho

& Mr Cassidy: $40,000 cash. Now that’s not buying happiness. That’s just buying off unhappiness.

& Caroline: Aren’t you going to take the pills? They’ll knock that headache out.
    Marion: Can’t buy off unhappiness with pills.

& Marion: A man should have a hobby...
    Norman Bates: Well, it’s... it’s more than a hobby. A hobby’s supposed to pass the time, not fill it.

& Marion: Do you go out with friends?
    Norman: Well, a boy’s best friend is his mother.

& Norman: You know what I think? I think that
we’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch.
    Marion: Sometimes we deliberately step into those traps...
    Norman: I was born in mine. I don’t mind it any more.

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& Marion: I meant well!
    Norman: People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest, oh, so very delicately. Of course, I’ve suggested it myself. But I hate to even think about it!

& Norman: She needs me. It’s not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes.

& Sheriff Chambers: Sheriff Chambers: Your detective told you he couldn’t come right back because he was going to question Norman Bates’ mother, right?
    Lila: Yes.
    Sheriff Chambers: Norman Bates’ mother has been dead and buried in Green Lawn Cemetery for the past 10 years...

& Sheriff Chambers: It ain’t only local history, Sam. It’s the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers. Mrs Bates poisoned this guy she was involved with when she found out he was married. Then took a helping of the same stuff herself... Strychnine. Ugly way to die.

& Sheriff Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs Bates, who’s that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetery?..

& Lila: I can handle a sick old woman.

& Dr. Richman: Now, to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother, that is, from the mother half of Norman’s mind, you have to go back 10 years to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover...

& Norma Bates: I hope they are watching. They’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, «Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly.»

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Hitchcock

& Peggy: Fox is offering you The Diary of Anne Frank for the third time.
    Hitchcock: The audience would spend the entire picture... waiting for Miss Frank to discover the corpse I’d hidden in the attic.

& Peggy: MGM wants you for the Шan Fleming book Casino Royale, with Cary Grant. Definitely your style.
    Hitchcock: Doesn’t she know I just made that movie? It was called North by Northwest. And style, my dear, is mere self-plagiarism.

& Hitchcock: I just want you to read this little bit here. It takes place in the motel bathroom.
    Alma: „Mary started to scream. And then the curtains parted farther... and a hand appeared, holding a butcher’s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream... and her head.” Charming. Doris Day should do it as a musical. That is nothing but low-budget, horror movie claptrap.
    Hitchcock: But what if someone really good made a horror picture?

& Lew: I’ve seen happier faces on a school bus going over a cliff.
    Hitchcock: But they can’t stop looking, can they?

& Hitchcock: Audiences want to be shocked, Barney. They want something different, and this is it.
    Barney: Every time you want to do something different... like The Wrong Man or Vertigo... someone loses money.
    Hitchcock: So, we should stop trying to give them something new?

& Lew: How much do you think you can make this picture for?
    Hitchcock: $800,000, give or take.
Ω Even if it was _those_ $$...

& Hitchcock: You know, the only thing worse than a visit to the dentist... is a visit to the censor.

& Geoffrey Shurlock: The code will absolutely not permit you to show a knife penetrating a woman’s flesh.
    Hitchcock: I assure you, Geoffrey... my murders are always models of taste and discretion.
    Shurlock: Is there any improper suggestion of nudity... in this murder scene in the shower?
    Hitchcock: She won’t be nude, she’ll be wearing a shower cap.
    Shurlock: We might accept a shot from outside the bathroom window... of Marion in silhouette, above the shoulders... provided that the glass is frosted.
    Hitchcock: Thank you.
    Shurlock: And... this scene with a toilet.
    Hitchcock: Well, it is completely necessary to show the toilet... because Marion Crane attempts to flush evidence down it. Remnants of which are later discovered by her sister. These remnants, you understand, are clues to her vanishing.
    Shurlock: No American movie has ever found it necessary to show a toilet... let alone to flush one.
    Hitchcock: Well, perhaps we ought to shoot the film in France. Use a bidet instead.
    Shurlock: Mister Hitchcock... if this office denies you a seal... and we’re certainly heading in that direction... your movie will not be released in a single theater in this country. Will you be making jokes then?

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& Hitchcock: Am I making a terrible mistake? What if it’s another Vertigo?

& Stefano: I want to thank you once again for this opportunity, Mister Hitchcock.
    Hitchcock: You may call me Hitch, hold the „cock.”

& Hitchcock: All right, come on, you two. Let’s get started. I wanted to talk about Marion’s arrival at the Bates Motel.
Ω Coming soon.

& Hitchcock: Why do they do it, I wonder? Why do they always betray me?

& Alma: You may not be the easiest man to live with... but you do know how to cut a picture better than anyone else.
    Hitchcock: Except for you.

& — What do you think?
    Peggy: I think I’ll never have a shower again.

& Hitchcock: I have a modest proposal to make. If you’re willing to leave the shower sequence as it is... I will reshoot the opening love scene to your exact specifications. In fact, I would welcome your personal supervision on the set.
    Shurlock: To my specifications?!
    Hitchcock: Well, of course, my dear fellow. If only audiences could fully comprehend... how tirelessly you work to help us entertain them... while protecting them from filth and indecency, well...

& Hitchcock: You know, Alma... I will never be able to find a Hitchcock blonde... as beautiful as you.
    Alma: I’ve waited 30 years to hear you say that.
    Hitchcock: And that, my dear, is why they call me... The Master of Suspense.

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