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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
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Film Producer
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Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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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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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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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