Alfred Hitchcock Movie Quotes:

We all know that Hitchcock was most famous and iconic director all time. His ideology about movies are really unimaginable so now we are going to see  about Alfred hitchcock movie quotes and what we can learn from him and how we can implement his idea or thoughts in our life.

Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in east London. Hitchcock told his parents that he wanted to be an engineer, and on 25 July 1913, he left St Ignatius and enrolled in night classes at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar.

Then on 12 December 1914 his father, who had been suffering from emphysema and kidney disease, died at the age of 52. To support himself and his mother—his older siblings had left home by then—Hitchcock took a job, for 15 shillings a week (£73 in 2017), as a technical clerk at the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company in Blomfield Street near London Wall.

Hitchcock took an interest in creative writing. In June 1919 he became a founding editor and business manager of Henley’s in-house publication, The Henley Telegraph (sixpence a copy), to which he submitted several short stories.

While still at Henley’s, he read in a trade paper that Famous Players-Lasky, the production arm of Paramount Pictures, was opening a studio in London. They were planning to film The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, so he produced some drawings for the title cards and sent his work to the studio.

Alfred Hitchcock Early life :

They hired him, and in 1919 he began working for Islington Studios in Poole Street, Hoxton, as a title-card designer.

When Paramount pulled out of London in 1922, Hitchcock was hired as an assistant director by a new firm run in the same location by Michael Balcon, later known as Gainsborough Pictures. Hitchcock worked on Woman to Woman (1923) with the director Graham Cutts, designing the set, writing the script and producing. He said: “It was the first film that I had really got my hands onto.

In the summer of 1925, Balcon asked Hitchcock to direct The Pleasure Garden (1925), starring Virginia Valli, a co-production of Gainsborough and the German firm Emelka at the Geiselgasteig studio near Munich.

Hitchcock’s luck came with his first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), about the hunt for a serial killer, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays.

After that he done so many suspense thriller movies that become cult classic till now. After still many year most of his movies were be considered as a references movie that if you want to know how to make suspense thriller then you should see the Hitchcock’s  movie first.

So now we these are some of the Alfred hitchcock movie quotes and his ideology about movies and life.

Alfred Hitchcock Positive Quotes:

” Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

“Ideas come from everything”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“If I won’t be myself, who will?”

” There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it”

” Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

” If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.”

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

” For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

” The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”

” In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”

” When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.'”

” Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”

” I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”

” A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”

Alfred Hitchcock Quotes About Films:

” There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.”

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

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

” Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.”

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

” Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs. So I don’t want to waste your time. I know you want to go back to work.”

” The paperback is very interesting but. I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.”

” This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.”

“I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

“A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.”

Alfred Hitchcock Life Lessons:

As we all know that Alfred Hitchcock is the most famous and iconic director all time. we can learn so many things from him even though we are in different carrier or field. But we can learn his idea. We can implement in our own respective carrier or field.

Hitchcock was considered and had a nick name as “Master of suspense.” So what his idea and what we can learn from him is none other than  “thinking outside of the box. ” Ok now you will think what he done creatively or outside of the box. I will give you one example.

In psycho movie the Hitchcock was promoted the movie saying that Janet Leigh actress was the lead role and their playing important role. Janet Leigh was very famous actress at the time. But when the movie was released. Everyone was shocked that Janet Leigh was died in the movie within 10 to 20 mins. That makes the audience so shocked and their were excepting what will happen next.

This change the big promotion for the movie And the movie become the blockbuster and even now it is consider as the cult classic in the cinema history and this movie was appreciated by critics and as well as audience. After so many year the same idea was used the another movie called scream and it also become the  block buster movie.

So like this we can implement his idea thinking outside of the box in our respective field or carrier. This was the some of the Alfred Hitchcock Movie Quotes.

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