Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred HitchcockRead
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Interpretation
Fear is a universal experience that often stems from childhood fears, manifesting in different forms as we grow.
In this quote, Alfred Hitchcock highlights the persistent nature of fear throughout our lives. He draws a parallel between childhood fears, such as those depicted in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, and the adult fears we face, suggesting that while the sources of our fear may change, the fundamental experience of fear itself remains constant and deeply ingrained in our psyche.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity, one might refer to Hitchcock's quote to illustrate the importance of addressing fears.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
There is something more important than logic: imagination
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.
I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.
One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.
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