Karlstrom Hitchcock Quotes

#1. Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#2. Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from. #Quote by Paul Zollo

#3. Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. #Quote by David Mamet

#4. I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#5. So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else. #Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

#6. If the seasons bleed into each other like a watercolor painting, it means not enough fish and berries to last the winter, not enough wood chopped for the stove, not enough meat in the freezer. One year winter came so fast and so hard, the leaves on the birch trees didn't even have time to turn yellow and fall off; they froze solid green on the branches. They clung there for months on skinny skeleton arms, the color so blindingly wrong it was creepy. Every year it's a race between the seasons, and that year fall lost. #Quote by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

#7. I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile. #Quote by Robert Zemeckis

#8. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me. #Quote by Tippi Hedren

#9. When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision. #Quote by Sacha Gervasi

#10. I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics. #Quote by Jim Woodring

#11. went into the men's room and got ready for the night. He was too full and he wanted to hurry and get in the berth and lie down. He thought he would lie there and look out the window and watch how the country went by a train at night. A sign said to get the porter to let you into the uppers. He stuck his sack up into his berth and then went to look for the porter. He didn't find him at one end of the car and he started back to the other. Going around the corner he ran into something heavy and pink; it gasped and muttered, 'Clumsy!' It was Mrs Hitchcock in a pink wrapper, with her hair in knots around her head. She looked at #Quote by Flannery O'Connor

#12. Love lasts for forever and a day. #Quote by Elizabeth Hitchcock

#13. When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' #Quote by David Gerrold

#14. In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission ... was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose.
I saw their point at once. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#15. Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. #Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

#16. Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock. #Quote by Vilmos Zsigmond

#17. I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#18. Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#19. People are only taken seriously as they take themselves. #Quote by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#20. I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike. #Quote by Heather O'Rourke

#21. I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#22. Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#23. In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. #Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

#24. For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#25. When I spoke to a colleague about Joe's report, her face registered surprise. She said, "Is it possible for a death in a nursing home to be premature?"
Joe told me, "If it were happening in any other kind of institution, to any other part of the population - workers, say, or children - there'd be an outcry, media, inquiries, swift intervention. The truth is we do not value the last months or years of a person's life. The remaining life of someone old. Particularly if they are in residential care."
If we are all just economic units who lift or lean, then very little is "lost" when a nursing home resident or anyone getting on in their years dies prematurely. In fact money might be saved - one less nursing-home bed to fund, and the kids can finally get their hands on the house. #Quote by Karen Hitchcock

#26. Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think it's all good to have a healthy debate about who Hitchcock was and what that means to people. He means a lot of different things to a lot of different people because the films are so great. If the movies were not great, no one would be bothering to show any interest. #Quote by Sacha Gervasi

#27. I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. #Quote by Rod Taylor

#28. Self-plagarism is style. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#29. Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. #Quote by Manuel Puig

#30. I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective. #Quote by Dario Argento

#31. I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#32. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#33. There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety. #Quote by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#34. A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#35. Never judge a country by its politicians. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#36. I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. #Quote by Patricia Highsmith

#37. I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan ... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought ... #Quote by Karen Walton

#38. I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare. #Quote by Kerry Greenwood

#39. 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. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#40. [On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. #Quote by Ingrid Bergman

#41. Never turn your back on a friend. #Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

#42. My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon. #Quote by Claire Danes

#43. Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing! #Quote by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#44. Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range. #Quote by Catherine Crier

#45. We all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist. #Quote by Jane Stanton Hitchcock