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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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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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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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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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