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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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 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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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'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
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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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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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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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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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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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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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