#hitch

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either. ↗

— Kim Novak

#anything #complain #either #hand #hitchcock

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way. ↗

— Kim Novak

#alfred hitchcock #answer #bring #every #got

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all. ↗

— Kim Novak

#add #alfred #alfred hitchcock #clues #ends

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. ↗

— Sylvia Sidney

#fritz #hitchcock #i #lang #loved

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#because #bigger #her #hitch #kill

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets. ↗

— James Stewart

#around #been #better #hitch #i

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#amusing #chaplin #charlie #could #course

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#common sense #conscience #dangerous #dangerous thing #hitched

Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths. ↗

— Francis M. Nevins

#cornell-woolrich #doomed #hunted #hysteria #nightmarish