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.
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.
I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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.
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Ideas come from everything.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
If I won't be myself, who will?
View the list Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
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.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
Self-plagiarism is style.
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
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, 'Your salary.'
If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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