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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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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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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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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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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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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