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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.
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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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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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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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