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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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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.

One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Hitchcock (1967)

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