Film Series- Hitchcock

      The first Alfred Hitchcock film I ever saw was The Birds. I can remember walking into the living room and staring at the television as I watched a swarm of birds attacking school children, I must have been around eight years old. I was so terrified I had to remove myself from the situation. It wasn't until many years later that I saw the film Rebecca and I fell deeply in love with the master of suspense. I started to look for more of his films and began my own collection. It really amazed me that a person can make a film with a certain formula but also have each film be unique in its own way.
     I think that most of the great filmmakers cite Hitchcock as a hero or inspiration. He has certainly become one of my all time favorite directors. With each scene in his films he draws me in slowly until I feel like i'm going to break with the tension and suspense. I don't really now what else to say about the man that hasn't already been said so I will leave you with some of my favorite quotes of his.



"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."


"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."