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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I never said all actors are cattle what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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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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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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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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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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