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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.
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
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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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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I always take the audience into account.
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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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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It has been rumored that Psycho is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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