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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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Film Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I never said all actors are cattle what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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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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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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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
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