Facts about Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock was a famous Director from England, who lived between August 13, 1899 and April 29, 1980.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Alfred, under the main topics: Funny, Movie.
Related authors: Cary Grant, Terence Fisher, Ingrid Bergman
Famous quotes by Alfred Hitchcock (34)
"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"
"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid"
"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"
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man"
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director"
"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"
"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them"
"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"
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle"
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it"
"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks"
"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"
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach"
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare"
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out"
"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up"
"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"
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"
"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.'"
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out"
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house"
"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime"
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it"
"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work"
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table"
"Self-plagiarism is style"
"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"
"Revenge is sweet and not fattening"
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs"
"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake"
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it"
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder"
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