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If I won't be myself, who will?

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
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Television Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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I always take the audience into account.
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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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