Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

British filmmaker (1899–1980)

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He is a well-known man and an award-winning director. He directed and produced three of the American Film Institute Top 100 Films, Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and North by Northwest (1959), two psychological thrillers and a suspense film. Additionally, Vertigo was rated as the best film of all time in the 2012 British Film Institute Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.

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Pen Names: Hitchcock

Birth Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

Alternative Names: Sir Alfred Hitchcock • Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock • The Master of Suspense • Master of Suspense • Alfred J. Hitchcock • Sir Alfred J. Hitchcock

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

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

"Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

Once the screenplay is finished, I'd just as soon not make the film at all ... I have a strongly visual mind. I visualise a picture right down to the final cuts. I write all this out in the greatest detail in the script, and then I don't look at the script while I'm shooting. I know it off by heart, just as an orchestra conductor needs not look at the score ... When you finish the script, the film is perfect. But in shooting it you lose perhaps 40 percent of your original conception

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.

I don't want to appear disloyal to television, but I think reading will be good for you.

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

I'm frightened of my own movies.

"Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral".

Quello che non riesco a capire è che uno si impadronisca completamente di un'opera, un buon romanzo che l'autore ha impiegato tre o quattro anni per scrivere e che è tutta la sua vita. Prendono il libro, lo manipolano per bene, si circondano di artigiani e tecnici quotati e si ritrovano candidati all'Oscar, mentre l'autore si dissolve nello sfondo

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