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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a highly influential British director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. Here are some of his more notable quotes:

	Some movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake...
	The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
	I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
	Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
	I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
	One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
	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.
	Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
	A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission, and the babysitter were worth it.
	Give them pleasure — the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
	Self-plagiarism is style.
	Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
	I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
	In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is the god; he must create life.
	Drama is life with the dull bits left out.
	Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
	I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
	I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
	I'm a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love being horrified, terrified.
	I never said actors were cattle. All I said is that actors should be treated as cattle.
	Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table
	The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of human bladder.
	There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
	This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
	To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
	There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
	Walt Disney has the best casting system. If he don't like an actor, he just tears him up.
	A murder without gleaming scissors is like asparagus without the hollandaise sauce - tasteless.

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