I’ve never done a quote of the day post before, but I just wanted to quickly share this one with you as it is one of my new favorites:
“Bad movies are photographs of people talking. A Hitchcock movie is a photograph of people thinking.”
I heard it the other day while watching a special feature included with the DVD of Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953), a movie starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. From what I could tell, it was a quote made by Alfred Hitchcock himself. I think it is perfectly illustrated in that movie, especially when it comes to Clift’s performance. When you watch the movie’s trailer below, pay special attention to the eyes of the actors and I think you can get a good sense of what he meant.
I love great quotes, so I hope to do more of these short posts in the future.
Great quote. There are many Hollywood Quote books out there if you seek them out.
Clift was great in this film and so was the actor who played the killer. I heard that ending scene took four hours to shoot with Father Logan (Clift) walking toward the killer. Any Hitchcock film is a sure treat.
The facial expressions on all these actors/atresses was classic Hitch!
Love his films. Tho I wish someone would remaster & clean up sound on some older Hitch movies. I have a 10 movie DVD set of old Hitchcock movies. Tho some are forgettable, some are not.
And all these old movies have at least memorable scenes, plot twists, characterizations where one sees a preview of the late 1940′s -1960′s great Hitchcock to come.
Some great quotes from actor, Victor Mature that I always liked are listed below. I always liked a person that doesn’t take themselves too seriously and Mature seems to reflect this here:
Mature was famously self-deprecatory about his acting skills. Once, after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was an actor, he cracked, “I’m not an actor — and I’ve got sixty-four films to prove it!” He was quoted in 1968 on his acting career: “Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.”