Alfred Hitchcock nejznámější citáty
„Kde se dva bojí, tam má třetí šanci být odsouzen za křivé svědectví.“
Varianta: Kde se dva bijí, tam má třetí šanci být odsouzený za křivé svědectví.
Alfred Hitchcock citáty a výroky
„S herci by se mělo zacházet jako s dobytkem.“
Zdroj: „Legendární se stal jeho výrok, který pronesl někdy v 50. letech při rozhovoru s jedním indickým novinářem. Prohlásil, že herci jsou jako dobytek, a tak je také třeba s nimi zacházet.“ (filmový historik Věroslav Hába, ceskatelevize.cz http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10345509122-okno-do-dvora/21238147162/5791-s-veroslavem-habou-o-hitchcockovi/, leden 2012)
„Mým největším přáním je vejít do obyčejného obchodu s pánskými oděvy a koupit si tam oblek.“
Zdroj: [V kůži Alfreda Hitchcocka, Reflex, 2010, 17, 70]
Alfred Hitchcock: Citáty anglicky
News summaries (31 December 1963).
“[This award is] meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.”
On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death (29 Apr. 1980).
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”
As quoted in Hitchcock (1967) by François Truffaut
“The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle—including the authorǃ”
Handwritten note accompanying Hitchcock's sketched self-portrait; as seen in—and addressed to the author of— "Melodrama Maestro" http://www.mediafire.com/view/uvl045zkpces0io/MELODRAMA_MAESTRO.jpg by Hume Cronyn, in McClean's (1 November 1944).
“I’m not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”
As quoted in Hitchcock (revised edition 1985) by François Truffaut, p. 109 http://books.google.com/books?id=NnE_sPb3XBQC&q=%22I'm+not+against+the+police+I'm+just+afraid+of+them%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage.
“Hitchcock: You know that I think all actors are cattle?
George Raft: Yes, I know—but I'm no actor.”
On the set of The House Across the Bay; as quoted in "The New Yorker" http://www.mediafire.com/view/t6bdmd0wg1hvd8m/%20.png by Leonard Lyons, in The Washington Post (26 July 1940).
As quoted in "New York Close-Up" http://www.mediafire.com/view/sllj68n3ug6dgju/Concert_Thursday_to_Aid_Memori.jpg.
As quoted in "New York Close-Up" http://www.mediafire.com/view/sllj68n3ug6dgju/Concert_Thursday_to_Aid_Memori.jpg by Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, in New York Herald Tribune (27 February 1950).
“The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.”
Movie trailer for the 1960s film The Birds.
“We do not recommend suicide as a way of life.”
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1965.
Hitchcock's Definition of Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dOICbwSIs (YouTube video), excerpt from CBC's interview 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock' (1964). Quoted in "Hitchcock's Secret to Happiness" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/hitchcocks-secret-to-happiness/254769/ by Maria Popova, The Atlantic (20 March 2012).
“It still goes. But Pat is the nicest cattle I've ever seen.”
Reaffirming the "actors are cattle" quote while in Boston to see his daughter perform onstage; as quoted in "The Lyons Den" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3ZBRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0mkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5954%2C4412673 by Leonard Lyons, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (20 October 1944).
Defending his repetition of filming techniques, in The Observer [London], (8 Aug. 1976).
“You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.”
Films and Filming (Volume 9, Issue 3; 1963), p. 20 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Films_and_Filming/GMARAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22you+can%27t+direct%22+hitchcock+laughton
