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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
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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 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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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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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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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