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Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

"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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."
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"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
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"Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs."
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"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation"
By Alfred Hitchcock
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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."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will g"
By Alfred Hitchcock
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"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
By Alfred Hitchcock
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