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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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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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 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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