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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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 would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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