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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

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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Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
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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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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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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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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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