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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
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Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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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 have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
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I never said all actors are cattle what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I always take the audience into account.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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