Quote #5
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
More from Alfred Hitchcock
- I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes : have you ever seen anything more …
- Never turn your back on a friend.
- One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
- The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
- 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.
- Some movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake...
- Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.