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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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It has been rumored that Psycho is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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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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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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