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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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Cinema
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
Alfred Hitchcock
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
Alfred Hitchcock
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?
Alfred Hitchcock
I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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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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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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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.'
Alfred Hitchcock
