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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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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'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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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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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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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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