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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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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God he must create life.
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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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