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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
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
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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 was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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If I won't be myself, who will?
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Ideas come from everything
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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