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There is something more important than logic: imagination
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 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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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Ideas come from everything
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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It has been rumored that Psycho is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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