A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a sl... -Alfred Hitchcock

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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock , Director
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Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer who is widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is known for his suspenseful and psychologically complex films, including "Psycho," "Vertigo," and "Rear Window." Hitchcock's distinctive style and masterful storytelling techniques have had a lasting impact on the thriller and suspense genres, and his films continue to be celebrated for their cinematic brilliance.

Alfred Hitchcock Quotes to Explore

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it....
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake....
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible....
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder....
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director....
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs....
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, becaus...
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are ...
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it....
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake....

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...