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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God he must create life.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
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