'All breasts sag eventually' - one of my new favorite quotes!

I remember watching "The Birds" in Media class at school ,then later after I got of the bus at home there were about 30-40 crows sitting on the power lines.That freaked me out a bit.

@milesjolly6173

2 жыл бұрын

I watched it in English at high school when I was about 14-15, I remember my teacher (who I really liked) saying to the class before she put it on, something along the lines of “this is an older horror film and it doesn’t have something scary happening every few minutes.” And we watched it and she was right. Hitchcock was fantastic at building up the suspense. You don’t need to have something happening all the time because your imagination will fill in the blanks. That being said, I haven’t watched any Hitchcock film for a while. Probably the most recent was North by Northwest which seems to be on TV fairly regularly where I live. I’ve also seen Vertigo and parts of Rear Window. But I’ve never seen Psycho and have wanted to see it for a long time, it just never seems to be on TV around here. Shame. I’ll get it on DVD one of these days then it’ll be on the telly, that’s always the way 😂

Such a great sense of humour.

@Communist-Doge

5 жыл бұрын

British humour at its best, truly. Hitchcock was (and is) one of England's best filmmakers.

@calvaryapologetics

4 жыл бұрын

Very witty

@adolflenin4973

2 жыл бұрын

@@Communist-Doge Indeed

Psycho released 1960-interview with Dick Cavett 1970 Hitchcock says in interview Psycho was 10 years ago so it was indeed 1970.

If Mr. Alfred Hitchcock hadn't chosen to be a genius filmmaker, he might have been a genius deadpan comedian. He was just hilarious.

@wrybreadspread

3 жыл бұрын

The very word..."deadpan"...with ominous overtones.

@adolflenin4973

2 жыл бұрын

Typical British

Hitchcock never fails to amuse me. A very clever man and a one of a kind filmmaker.

I would have loved to have met Hitchcock what a brilliant mind.

Having just seen the movie "Hitchcock" I found this very interesting. What a wonderful man. Such a sense of humour. Thanks for sharing and thanks You Tube for making it possible to see these gems.

Hitchcock truly a genius ❤️👏❤️

3000 birds were used for The Birds, the smartest were the Ravens. Seagulls were the most vicious. What psychology did you use on Seagulls to control? Birdseed.

We were unique, class and lovely, Hitch Miss you, Maestro Thank you for your Art, May you rest in Peace, Dearest 🤍 I will never forget you, and will remember you forever

Alfred Hitchcock might be from the great England and in Usa Alfred Hitchcock is a legend and one of best in Hollywood!!!!!

@eraguilar

9 жыл бұрын

The most influential director in cinema history

@snolan1990

8 жыл бұрын

We swapped Hitchcock for Kubrick.

@johncastle8254

7 жыл бұрын

Ed Camp many greats who became legends in the USA came from England ,bob hope ,Stan laurel ,Charlie chaplain ,to name a few .

@DIDCOTTWIST

3 жыл бұрын

@@johncastle8254 Cary Grant

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Londres, 13 de agosto de 1899-Los Ángeles, 29 de abril de 1980) fue un director de cine, productor y guionista británico. Pionero en muchas de las técnicas que caracterizan a los géneros cinematográficos del suspenso y el thriller psicológico, tras una exitosa carrera en el cine británico en películas mudas y en las primeras sonoras, que le llevó a ser considerado el mejor director de Inglaterra, Hitchcock se trasladó a Hollywood en 1939.

The movie The Birds inspired me to make my own movie called "The Kittens" where a bunch of kittens attack and bite and tap people with their paws.

@jccurran9327

4 жыл бұрын

James - Love the plot outline. 🐾

@jagdishacharya1438

4 жыл бұрын

Did the your movie ever screened in the movie house or kept in the cemetery vault of late Sir. Alfred Hitchcock.

@peteannells4218

3 жыл бұрын

Did you ever see 'Kitten Kong'? No joke: episode of the 'Goodies;. UK TV. Giant kitten demolishing London.

God, we'll give you Michael Bay in exchange for Hitchcock!

@dangerdan2592

9 жыл бұрын

You'd be terribly shorting God.

@TheWonderStraw

5 жыл бұрын

we'll sweeten the deal by throwing in his profits from the transformers franchise. C'mon, God!

@MarcusisTheDark17

3 жыл бұрын

Further sweeten it with the Kardashian sluts

Man, that scene from "The Birds" still gives me the willies!

What all visitors to this site need to know is that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hitchcock had a tv series called ...ahem ...."Alfred HItchcock Presents." These were 1/2 hour shows that were "mini-thrillers". Some were just so-so, but most were very, very frightening. However, the best part of each show was definitely Hitchcock himself, who spoke at the beginning and end of each episode. He was absolutely hilarious. True genius.

@vannizaniboni3502

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that series and I think that "Alfred Hitchcock presents" was the name of the very first season of that series because the following series were called "The Alfred Hitchcock's Hour" or probably vice versa. I even bought them in DVDs. Sometimes I even liked Hitchcock's sketches at the beginning and at the end of the film more than the film itself. Hilarious!

Mr Hitchcock draws you in with any type of conversation

His voice. Unmisstakable.

Veronica Cartwright was wonderful and she and Hitch became best friends on The Birds. She became a real scream queen with the terrifying remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien and other films.

The Birds is a surrealist masterpiece.

notice how in those days people didn't lock their cars.

@dopejoel

7 жыл бұрын

Demographics were different.

@quackattack357

6 жыл бұрын

Oh they did in the city

His films made you use a lot of imagination . And it's what you don't really see that is so frightening .

@djshem592

7 жыл бұрын

Oxхxford Univеrsity Rеveals: Quick Insomnia Cure => twitter.com/28b6ff78e5015b4ae/status/804614583075733505 AAAlfred Hitchcock was confused by a laxative ccommercccial

@vittoriostoraro

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen Frenzy ?

@annarodriguez9868

2 жыл бұрын

@@vittoriostoraro That was the only Hitchcock movie I didn't like.

@1earflapping

Жыл бұрын

@@vittoriostoraro yeah, I did. Rather repulsive. Sometimes it’s better to NOT show things.

Loved his Hour Show

THE BEST THERE EVER WAS , I HAVE ALL HIS MOVIES

@paolamura3497

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I love his voice!!!

Damn, that clip from _Birdemic: The Pre-Quill_ -- wow & whoa. So's excited! 👍👍 🐤💥🐦💥🐥

It will be interesting as to how he is treated in the two upcoming biographies this month - the behind the scenes stories of Tippi Hendren and how he came to shoot "Psycho" (two separate films).

Rear window, a wonderful movie which can make me fall asleep like a baby... he has a gift of making a film personal, although many today can create an exciting movie, he has a way of making them personal.

Hitchcock was fabulously intelligent and had a wonderful sense of dry humor... it's a joy to get to hear more examples of that humor. :)

Gotta love Sir Alfred Hitchprick..!!

he was so with it just a really smart guy

Alfred Hitchcock had a special way with advertisements.

Tippi Hedron, Rod Taylor, and Suzanne Pleshette in the Birds

You know what they say: Big hands, big...talent!

I find it interesting how something like the man falling down the stairs in that one scene seems so cheesy to us now and if you ask someone on the street how they filmed that they could probably tell you with hardly any background knowledge at all. Yet back then they were all fascinated to learn how they filmed the "curious effect" in that scene

Nothing like Hitchcock humor!

Today, with CGI, the scene from The Birds looks so phony. But in 1964 audiences hadn't seen anything like that in movies, so it seemed very real.

@JamesBigica

6 жыл бұрын

The scene with the birds was real....he used real birds and they actually did attack her

My Gawd, look at the size of his flippers, I mean hands. They look like they belong on an elephant seal!

@Goosemeyer

9 жыл бұрын

he's sitting across from Cavett for scale. David could stand atop a wedding cake. He's about 105 lbs

As a railroad worker if we had boxcar and didn't know it's contents we'd call it either GOK or a widgets. (GOK, God Only Knows). In trucking we used FAK, Frieght All Kinds.

"considering the weather over there, I'm surprised" LOL

@greg5566 Cavett is something here and trying to maintain a line between erudition and the casual establishment wariness that shows he's still hip and young, which is pretty typical at that age. The show format was sophisticated, even in this period, and he wants to maintain that level even though he's of an age where he appreciates and is even star struck by his guests. This is obvious with Betty Davis, but he tries to maintain a sang froid in order to mask it and shift the focus.

The greatest of them all!

@Banatterie June 8 1972

@greg5566 Rowan and Martin were working in a completely different genre, plus they're 12 years older than Cavett which gives them a whole different perspective on life. It also gives them a daddy like appearance when dealing with the "kids" on the show. The format, here, is that they are part of the older set, but let the cool, hip kids take over to let the silliness ensue. Honestly, though, I think Laugh In was completely safe and gives us far less now than the Cavett interviews.

They don't make them like that anymore.

1:43 The worst thing I've ever heard about Hitchcock was that he once bet someone on the crew that said crew member could not spend a night chained to a piano. Little did the guy know, but Hitchcock had slipped laxative into his coffee before the night began. Apparently, his fascination with the stuff continued on after that.

@anthonythorne6519

7 жыл бұрын

In Patrick McGilligan's biography of Hitchcock we learn more about the story. The 'someone on the crew' was a long-term crew member who everyone enjoyed pranking, who took the event in good humour, who had worked for Hitchcock for years, and who kept on working happily with Hitchcock for years after that. The (earlier) Spoto biography Spoto writes of the crew member weeping with frustration and embarrassment, etc - all bullshit conjured up by Spoto because he hated Hitchcock's guts. Half of Spoto's book is like that.

@guileniam

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonythorne6519 he was fine with Hitchcock after hitch made him shit his pants in front of everyone?

@greg5566 Respectfully, they are not the only interviews of these people. Many lived into the seventies, 80s, and 90s. They were interviewed during the fifties and sixties, according to the style, and the ones who survived were interviewed later. Cavett's style was ground breaking and brilliant. One reason that we cannot get more of this kind of commentary from our more intelligent or modern veteran celebrities is that either the style has changed or he interviewer is too self absorbed.

@greg5566 That's where you and I are of opposite opinion. I find Laugh in to be unbearably jejune and juvenile. Cavett used an interview style that, especially in the longer format, allowed the subject to reveal themselves in a casual conversation that removed the person from the persona. It's a rare talent and these are the best interviews that we have of some of these "golden age" celebrities. Certainly, Cavett has some annoying traits, which I outlined, but I cannot deny his contribution

he was the best

great filmmaker, even greater jowls

Coming soon?

Holy crap!!! Drew brees!!!!

he's the father of cinema

I think Hitchcock was a superb expert when it came to dealing with talk show hosts and everything else for that matter...I really LOVED his daughters acting and wish she had done more acting...I wonder what she is doing or if she is still around...seems like I remember when he died reading some comments from her that she is living in her home country of Britian? correct me please if I am wrong....

We can only wonder the sorts of films Hitch would've been able to produce with today's technology. Like Kubrick, we'll sadly never know. (And Tippi Hedren was smokin' in The Birds)

thanks for posting. when was this recorded?

@RoscoMontana21

3 жыл бұрын

1970

He said Roman Catholic school give him sense of suspense because of the punishments. He loved Edgar Allan Poe and Modern art.

Also, I'm not just referring to cgi. I'm referring also to modern cameras, HD, non-linear editing, as well as new lighting and sound techniques. Hitch would've tried any technique to get his canvas perfect. The industry's come a long way not just for cgi, but the entire medium. Few of us are in any doubt that he would've been able to create some absolute masterworks if he had the benefits filmmakers enjoy today because of himself and people like Kubrick, John Ford, Kurosawa and others.

Alfred Hitchcock Hour

That sounds like the greatest film ever made.

Guess I stand corrected in my comment. Times were different then and obviously I was unaware of Dick's way of interviewing :-) Having said that, I don't believe that a similar interview could be repeated today with much success...

4 people were traumatized by Psycho

"Birdseed"

Is this film what was trying to be imitated by "The Happening"?

What does the title have to do with the video?!

After "there ARE no lions in Scotland", the guy should have said, "I know! See how well it works?"

you would be surprised how much exercise i did in the past with 8 cups of coffee, and eating fiber every day plus, more and still no poop for at least 2 weeks. Whenever i traveled this happen and still even at home it was never normal..so, i can see sports people sadly with constipation lmao, it's possible.

@garciare1 ... Great quote!

Those Birds seem to be From the family of teradactal de Republicans de la Tejas, If I'm not mistaken. (r)

Why is there no date of the interview?

@eraguilar

9 жыл бұрын

June 2nd 1972 while he was promoting Frenzy

@sueme1954

4 жыл бұрын

Dick's haircut says 1972-4.

What's the box of tissues for? Spontaneous weeping about the carpet? :)

his voice reminds me Winston Churchill

The Master.

Dick Cavett's face at 7:20 is a picture.

hah excellent - good retort by cavett too

2:57 reminds me so much of Jurassic Park.

love it.

My mistake - I meant digital video not HD. Anyway, you're certainly allowed your opinion and believe it or not I share some of it. Peace.

This dude does a great Hitchcock.

Respectfully disagree about The Birds being a dated film...I watched it at the Fox Theater in Fullerton, CA with a full crowd and the suspense and tension is just as poignant as it was then. At the point when Mrs. Brenner discovers the farmer, you can feel/hear the crowd gasp at the split second image on the screen...just one of many good moments and a good movie to watch for any era.

every guy movie has a mcgoffen, i just didnt know it had a name.

nice.

@The64v Bomp, Kill, Marry... Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan?

DICK CAVETT 19 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1936 85 AÑOS (86)

Ahhh, that must be the cutest death ever.

He's the greatest director of all history and for some reason he's also hilarious. Everytime he talks I crack up, I'm not making fun of him... I'm just saying

hitchcock never laugh at his jokes, only makes a slight smile

put it in 1.25 speed for a superior experience

Laxative commercial confusion at 1:43.

Most of the children who were running away from the birds were laughing (not a very good thing when they are supposed to be afraid).

Tippi was my fav Alfred girl ~

@JiveDadson

3 жыл бұрын

She said Hitchcock ended her career out of spite.

If I were into HERO worship...again I say..He would be my HERO!!!

Warning: probably bad English: What year is this from?

It's a shame his films were so universally popular. He might be more respected then!

"all breasts sag eventually" HAHA Hitchcock homie 4 life! :D

Hitchcock's movie "Birds" was all the rave but I thought it was a boring film... I just didn't appreciate it because I never had a fear of birds... alligators maybe but not birds... now if he had made a movie about flying alligators...

Well, we can almost certainly say it is a majority.

Here's Camille Paglia on the scene from The Birds: "Like Furies, the crows harass the children from behind, nipping their necks and cheeks, as we seem to slide helplessly backward downhill, with the mob about to trample us. There's a tremendous noise of mingled screams and raucous bird cries. After the first flash of real horror, I generally settle down to laughing and applauding the crows, whom I regard as Coleridgean emissaries vandalizing sentimental Wordsworthian notions of childhood."

I object to any lauding of Lucas & Spielberg. It suggests that they might be artists.