English - Director | August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980
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.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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 length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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