No, he ducked down a side street,
the police went the wrong way.

The girl handed him over to us,
thinking we were detectives.

We had to take her as well
because he told her everything.

Very good, ma'am. I see.
Yes, ma'am.

#The 39 Steps  #quotes  #quote  #Madeleine Caroll  
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1 year ago

You know what I think? I think we’re all in our private traps. We scratch and claw trying to get out, trying to break free, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch.

Norman Bates (via thin-ice)
#psycho  #quote  
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1 year ago

Mother! Oh God, Mother! Blood! Blood!

Norman Bates (via theylovealexis)
#Psycho  #quote  
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1 year ago
(via psycho-for-vertigo)

(via psycho-for-vertigo)

#Psycho  #quote  
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1 year ago
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#Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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1 year ago

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.

Alfred Hitchcock
#Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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1 year ago

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Alfred Hitchcock
#Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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1 year ago

Before filming the final attack scene when Melanie goes upstairs to her doom, Tippi Hedren asked Alfred Hitchcock , “Hitch, why would I do this?” Hitchcock’s response was, “Because I tell you to.

While filming The Birds
#The Birds  #Tippi Hedren  #Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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1 year ago

I don’t think I can do that naturally,” the then young actress Ingrid Bergman once informed Alfred Hitchcock about a particular scene. In what Bergman would later admit was the best acting advice she ever received, Hitchcock suggested, “If you can’t do it naturally, then fake it.

#Ingrid Bergman  #Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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1 year ago

[Part of publicity campaign prior to release of Psycho (1960)] It has been rumored that “Psycho” is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.

Alfred Hitchcock
#Alfred Hitchcock  #quote  
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