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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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Film Director
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Television Director
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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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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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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If I won't be myself, who will?
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