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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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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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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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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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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
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There is something more important than logic: imagination
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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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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