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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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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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