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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
Cinematographer
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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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 ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
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It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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 the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God he must create life.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Ideas come from everything
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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Everything's perverted in a different way.
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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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