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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
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Film Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
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That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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