| 19 Famous Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock
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“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”
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“This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.”
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“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.”
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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.”
Television Quotes |
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“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
Life Quotes |
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“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
Anticipation Quotes |
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“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
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“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
Movies Quotes |
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“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
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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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“I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”
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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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“I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.”
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“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
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“There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”
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“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director”
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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