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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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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 would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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