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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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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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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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