Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 in Leytonstone, England. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, renowned as England's best director, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood to in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955.
He is renowned as a legendary filmmaker and director. He has directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning nearly six decades.
Hitchcock is regarded as one of the best filmmakers of all time. He shaped cinema through the work of his suspense and psychological thrillers. Hitchcock advanced techniques such as using the camera to mimic a person's gaze, advanced film editing and framing shots to maximise fear, anxiety and empathy from the audience.
Hitchcock quotes
Thrillers allow the audience
"To put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it is
like"
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it"
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"
"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what's going on"
Fact: Around age five, according to Hitchcock, he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for five minutes as punishment for behaving badly This incident not only implanted a lifetime fear of policemen in Hitchcock, but such harsh treatment and wrongful accusations would be found frequently throughout his films!
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