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I like stories with lots of psychology.

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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There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.
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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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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on 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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To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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