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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
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Film Director
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Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
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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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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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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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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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