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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
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Television Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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If I won't be myself, who will?
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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