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A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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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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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Ideas come from everything
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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.
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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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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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