Alfred Joseph Hitchcock foi um cineasta britânico. Considerado o "Mestre dos filmes de suspense" , foi um dos mais conhecidos e populares realizadores de todos os tempos.
“Estilo é plagiar a si mesmo.”
citado em "Mil Beijos Em Frases: Gotas de Sabedoria Para Indicar Caminhos" - Página 46, Jacqueline Shor - Nobel, 1999, ISBN 8521311184, 9788521311188 - 140 páginas
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“Há algo mais importante que a lógica: é a imaginação.”
citado em "3001 pensamentos" - Página 220, CABADA, Gerardo, Edicoes Loyola, 2001, ISBN 8515023075, 9788515023073 - 288 páginas
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“A televisão é como as torradeiras: carrega-se no botão e sai sempre a mesma coisa.”
The television set in American homes is like the toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.
citado em "The Reader's digest: Volume 85" - página 26, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace - 1964
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“Nunca vire as costas a um amigo.”
Never turn your back on a friend.
citado em "Cue: the weekly magazine of New York life" - página 54, Cue Publishing Co., 1965
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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.
citado em "The Commonweal: Volume 87;Volume 87", 1967
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“Loiras fazem as melhores vítimas. Eles são como neve virgem, que mostra as sangrentas pegadas.”
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
citado em "The entertainers" - página 109, Timothy White - Billboard Books, 1998, ISBN 0823076067, 9780823076062 - 432 páginas
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“A duração do filme deve estar directamente relacionado com a resistência da bexiga humana.”
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Variante: A duração de um filme deveria estar diretamente relacionada à paciência da bexiga urinária humana.
“Sempre faça o público sofrer tanto quanto possível.”
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
citado em "Halliwell's filmgoer's companion: incorporating The filmgoer's book of quotes and Halliwell's movie quiz" - página 341, Leslie Halliwell - Grafton, 1988, ISBN 0246133228, 9780246133229 - 786 páginas
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“Mesmo meus fracassos ganham dinheiro e se tornam clássicos um ano depois que os faço.”
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
citado em "Halliwell's filmgoer's companion: incorporating The filmgoer's book of quotes and Halliwell's movie quiz" - página 341, Leslie Halliwell - Grafton, 1988, ISBN 0246133228, 9780246133229 - 786 páginas
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“Não há terror em um estrondo, apenas na antecipação dele.”
Em resposta ao seu estilo de suspense
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“O seu melhor lado? Minha querida, você está sentado sobre ele.”
Para Kim Novak, atriz de Um corpo que cai.
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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.
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
