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“best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished he’d directed. Dark Passage, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—a San Francisco valentine, all velveteen with fog, and antecedent to any movie in which a character goes under the knife to disguise himself. Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe; Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn; Sudden Fear!, starring Joan Crawford’s eyebrows. Wait Until Dark: Hepburn again, a blind woman stranded in her basement apartment. I’d go berserk in a basement apartment.”
― The Woman in the Window
― The Woman in the Window
“Then he stared down at the twinkling lights and sobbed, "All my stars fell out of the sky.”
― The Beautiful Dead
― The Beautiful Dead
“She’s come undone. That was a book, I believe.”
― The Woman in the Window
― The Woman in the Window
“Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Death wants his Maiden”
― The Beautiful Dead
― The Beautiful Dead
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