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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Alfred Hitchcock

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Failure Money Myself
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Myself Scare
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Believe Fear Inspirational
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Determination Enjoyment Weapon Yourself
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Audience Possible Suffering
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
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Death End Hope Oneself
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.
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Ideas Live People Time
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
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.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
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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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Fear Film Myself
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value

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