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Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: As quoted in: "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers" (Collins, 1979), p. 132
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Alfred Hitchcock

“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: Interview on CBS TV (20 February 1977)
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Alfred Hitchcock

“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.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Hitchcock (1967) by François Truffaut
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Alfred Hitchcock

“Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: On audiences. Asbury Park NJ Press (13 August 1974)
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Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: Newsweek (11 June 1956)
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Alfred Hitchcock

“I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

Source/Notes: Attributed. According to the book "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light" (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, "nobody has been able to date the origins" of this statement, but "the director himself recalled that he might have said something along those lines in the late 1920s"
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