Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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 equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Author Details:
Type:
Director Quotes
Category:
English Director Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 13, 1899
Date of Death:
April 29, 1980
Nationality:
English
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Select Alfred Hitchcock Quotations:
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred Hitchcock
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
Actors are cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Achieved,
Arm,
Asthmatic,
Carrying,
Equalled,
His,
Indignant,
Inspired,
Inventor,
Man,
Never,
Pig,
Purity,
Saw,
Sound,
These,
Under,
Understand
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All Alfred Hitchcock Quotations:
A good film is when the...
A lot of movies are about...
Actors are cattle.
Always make the audience suffer as...
Blondes make the best victims. They're...
Dialogue should simply be a sound...
Disney has the best casting. If...
Drama is life with the dull...
For me, the cinema is not...
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure...
I am a typed director. If...
I am scared easily, here is...
I am to provide the public...
I have a perfect cure for...
I never said all actors are...
I'm full of fears and I...
I'm not against the police; I'm...
If it's a good movie, the...
In feature films the director is...
In films murders are always very...
Luck is everything... My good luck...
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Seeing a murder on television can...
Self-plagiarism is style.
Some of our most exquisite murders...
Someone once told me that every...
Television has brought back murder into...
Television has done much for psychiatry...
Television is like the American toaster...
Television is like the invention of...
The length of a film should...
The more successful the villain, the...
The only way to get rid...
The paperback is very interesting but...
There is no terror in the...
There is nothing quite so good...
There is nothing to winning, really...
These are bagpipes. I understand the...
This award is meaningful because it...
This paperback is very interesting, but...
We seem to have a compulsion...
What is drama but life with...
When an actor comes to me...
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