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To make a great film you need three things: the script, the script and the script.
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On Rear Window:
I'll bet you that nine out of ten people, if they see a woman across the courtyard undressing for bed, or even a man puttering around in his room, will stay and look; no one turns away and says, "It's none of my business." They could pull down their blinds, but they never do; they stand there and look out.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Cartoonists have the best casting system. If they don't like an actor, they just tear him up.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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I didn't discover Grace [Kelly], but I saved her from a fate worse than death. I prevented her from being eternally cast as a cold woman.
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Blondes are the best victims. They're like virgin snow which shows up the bloody footprints.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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There is nothing quite so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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[This award is] meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award
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Grace Kelly's apparent frigidity was like a mountain covered with snow, but that mountain was a volcano.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Born:
August 13, 1899
Died:
April 29, 1980
(aged 80)
Bio:
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English film director and producer, often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres.
Known for:
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Vertigo (1958)
Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
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