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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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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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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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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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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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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