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title: "5 Dull Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock"
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> [Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/making-a-film-means-first-of-all-to-tell-a-story-that-story-can-be-an/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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> [What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/what-is-drama-but-life-with-the-dull-bits-cut-out/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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> [Drama is life with the dull bits left out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/drama-is-life-with-the-dull-bits-left-out/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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> [Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/drama-is-life-with-the-dull-bits-cut-out/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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> [Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/drama-is-life-with-the-dull-bits-left-out-there-is-no-terror-in-the/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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## Other authors on Dull

## More by Alfred Hitchcock

> [Revenge is sweet and not fattening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/revenge-is-sweet-and-not-fattening/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/there-is-nothing-quite-so-good-as-burial-at-sea-it-is-simple-tidy-and/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/someone-once-told-me-that-every-minute-a-murder-occurs-so-i-don-t/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/if-it-s-a-good-movie-the-sound-could-go-off-and-the-audience-would/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/when-accepting-the-american-film-institute-life-achievement-award-i/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/i-am-scared-easily-here-is-a-list-of-my-adrenaline-production-1-small/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/film-your-murders-like-love-scenes-and-film-your-love-scenes-like/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/i-m-a-writer-and-therefore-automatically-a-suspicious-character/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/for-me-the-cinema-is-not-a-slice-of-life-but-a-piece-of-cake/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/i-am-to-provide-the-public-with-beneficial-shocks/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/one-never-knows-the-ending-one-has-to-die-to-know-exactly-what/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/i-ve-become-a-body-of-films-not-a-man-i-am-all-those-films/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/a-woman-who-spends-all-day-washing-and-cooking-and-ironing-doesn-t/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/some-of-our-most-exquisite-murders-have-been-domestic-performed-with/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

> [All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hitchcock/all-love-scenes-started-on-the-set-are-continued-in-the-dressing-room/)

[Alfred Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hitchcock/)

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