Alfred Hitchcock: "Seeing a murder on television… can help work..."

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still...

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book—it makes a very poor doorstop.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. In it, I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

—Alan Corenk

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

—Al Boliska

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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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