Monday, December 3, 2007

40%

  • Hitch said he liked skiing; watching people ski was the most exhilirating site
  • movies; the man who knew too much, the 39 steps, secret agent, sabotage, young and innocent, and foreign coreespondent
  • Hitch's favorite movie character is Mr. Memory from his movie "the 39 steps"; who is based on a real person named Datas
  • Pat- "my father was a wonderful father, so dear and funny. he liked it when I was michievous-"
  • Some actors didn't show any attraction to the way Alfred Hitchcock presented himself. They thought him too strict: didn't give actors the chance to explore the character and improvise, everything was already planned. However, after the actor finished the film and watched it years later, they had come to like it more (liked hitchcocks work more, but not his personality)

'actors are cattle,' unquote, because he said it in my presence. I never knw if it was aimed specifically at me or if he had already had the thought. "(alfred hitchcock, a personaly biography, Charlotte Chandler'

  • close workers (Baker, name)-"not particularly friendly, but he wan't unfriendly. He was professional, you know. He didn't wste time on pleasntries. He got on with the work, and so did I.
  • baker-" people warned me to beware of his practical joke side, which apparently amused him, jokes which he found hilarious and one else did, especially the victim.-"

The practical jokes period in England, end of the Bicorina period and during the edward ian era (1901-1910) influende Hitch. Who had a found it appealing.

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