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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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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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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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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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This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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