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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
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Film Actor
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Television Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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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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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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