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Alfred Hitchcock

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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.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#coward #everything #fear #film #fortunate

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


#am #children #easily #good #here

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#beneficial #i #i am #provide #public

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#every #go #i #know #me

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#fears #films #get #make #only

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#good #nothing #quite #sea #simple

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#against #i #just #police #them

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#domestic #exquisite #homey #kitchen #kitchen table

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#picture #successful #villain






About Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Quotes




Did you know about Alfred Hitchcock?

" "Well" says the first man "what's a Macguffin?" The other answers "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar London. As an early 'talkie' the film is often cited by film historians as a landmark film and is often considered to be the first British sound feature film.

Many of the mysteries however are used as decoys or "MacGuffins" that serve the film's themes and the psychological examinations of the characters. Through his cameo appearances in his own films interviews film trailers and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents he became a cultural icon. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.

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