The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Biography
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Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a cultural icon.
Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." The magazine MovieMaker has described him as the most influential filmmaker of all time, and he is widely regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. - Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. - Alfred Hitchcock
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