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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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