#hitch

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#hitchihikers #humor #philosophy #humor

I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#advice #alfred-hitchcock #filming-scenes #life

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. ↗

— Norman G. Finkelstein

#christopher-hitchens #conversion #politics #rationality #reason

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#bypass #hitchikers #science-fiction #science

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ↗

— Josh Billings

#great #great power #hitch #many #power

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#films #hitchcock #i #i think #making

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing. ↗

— Dan Blocker

#daddy #damn #damn thing #good #hitch

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#built #business #female #gaze #hitchcock

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way. ↗

— Brett Favre

#five #go #going #hitch #into