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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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