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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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It has been rumored that Psycho is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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