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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
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I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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