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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

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
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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If I won't be myself, who will?
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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 a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
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