Quote #53

Like Freud, Hitchcock diagnosed the discontents that chafe and rankle beneath the decorum of civilization. Like Picasso or Dali, he registered the phenomenological threat of an abruptly modernised world. - Peter Conrad

More from Alfred Hitchcock

  1. The man with the navy-blue voice. ~ Barbara Harris (London Observer 6 Aug 76)
  2. Here is someone, who has an enormous, inordinate, neurotic fear of disorder. And that's from which he makes his art. He always has his peop…
  3. Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. ~ Ingrid Bergman
  4. I'd like to know more about his relationships with women. No, on second thought, I wouldn't. - Ingrid Bergman
  5. A murder without gleaming scissors is like asparagus without the hollandaise sauce - tasteless.
  6. 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, '…
  7. Walt Disney has the best casting system. If he don't like an actor, he just tears him up.
  8. 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.

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