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Puns are the highest form of literature.

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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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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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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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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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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I always take the audience into account.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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