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Alfred Hitchcock

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence
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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Change Habit Invention Media People
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Myself Surprise
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Nice Sex Woman Young
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.
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Blessing Eyes Win
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Body Film Men
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
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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Art Audience Body History Myself
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Fear Police
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
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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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man

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