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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
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Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Television
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Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
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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 become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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