Alfred Hitchcock

Director

1899-08-13 – 1980-04-29

Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer widely associated with the suspense and thriller genres. His films include Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window. He died in 1980.

Books by Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders in Suspense
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Ghostly Gallery
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Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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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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Ideas come from everything
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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Ideas come from everything
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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