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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
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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