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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Failure Money Myself
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Death Kill Love Yourself
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Book Poor Reading
Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Country Judgement Politics
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Difficult Kill Men Reality
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Humor Myself Value
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
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Need Stupidity
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Reality Time
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Myself Scare
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Death Place Simplicity

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