Ethan A. Hitchcock quote: "They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions."

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by th...
ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could ...
ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when th...
ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK

It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in ...
ETHAN A. NADELMANN

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that ni...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Dreams are a scientific fact.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

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

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, g...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonis...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living i...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any an...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like e...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script....
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I h...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which en...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to k...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonism...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile m...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I've seen young guys who've played great and I've seen them absolutely overwhelmed. I've seen young ...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We're not targeting players. Retaliation and all that stuff doesn't have any place.
KEN HITCHCOCK

Yeah, I think a lot of guys did. [The Olympics] was a lot of hockey with not a lot of breaks. I thin...
KEN HITCHCOCK

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit ch...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

He's supposed to have a look at those things.
KEN HITCHCOCK

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and ...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

When I look at Simon, I see the same player I've seen for two years. But now he plays with a center ...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We already know that (Simon) Gagne is that player, ... we're hopeful that Jeff (Carter) gets up to s...
KEN HITCHCOCK

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend t...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It ju...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

They're the top dog. They've taken on all comers and really eaten up some teams this year.
KEN HITCHCOCK

That was the biggest goal of the series.
KEN HITCHCOCK

We had nine first-year players against Montreal. Everybody knows our situation. We're limping.
KEN HITCHCOCK

When you look at a team like Ottawa, to me that's a good gauge on your team and individuals. They st...
KEN HITCHCOCK

That was a hard, bizarre game. It was really hard and it was really, really bizarre.
KEN HITCHCOCK

(when talking to a fans mother who was complaining that her daughter would no longer go in the showe...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

[After watching the fresh-faced and more sprightly Senators bounce his Flyers out of the playoffs in...
KEN HITCHCOCK

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I don't think anybody was looking for the penalties. I said it before ... the first team that adjust...
KEN HITCHCOCK

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

He's our captain, he's just not another player.
KEN HITCHCOCK

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Those are usually a reward for hard work. Good players score those goals. Guys like you and me, the ...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We had to respond after what happened in Buffalo. We played better and we played the way we have to ...
KEN HITCHCOCK

If it's working, then we'll stay with it. If not, we'll move (combinations around) and, quite frankl...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We built all the momentum keeping it five-on-five. We have to do a better job five-on-five. That is ...
KEN HITCHCOCK

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Stay out of jail
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Vermont's a tough place to play. They're gonna have a good team so we're really going to have to ste...
BRENDAN HITCHCOCK

I don't think the spot has anything to do with it. I've just been seeing the ball really well. It wa...
BRENDAN HITCHCOCK

I felt really good in the box today. I'm seeing the ball really well, and I think we're ready to rol...
BRENDAN HITCHCOCK

We?re lucky because those guys (the Phantoms) are 25 steps down the hall,
KEN HITCHCOCK

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

We want to finish strong and get first place in the division before the break. That's something we'v...
KEN HITCHCOCK

Even when things get a little hairy like they did in the second period, we gathered ourselves and di...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We just kept asking him where he was, where he was, and eventually he figured it out.
KEN HITCHCOCK

It was huge. We were on our heels. I'm sure the feeling in the stands was, 'Oh, no, here we go again...
KEN HITCHCOCK

When you haven't won, it isn't going to be a masterpiece when you try to get the thing back. We took...
KEN HITCHCOCK

We had a team that had a high payroll and we were able to pare it down,
KEN HITCHCOCK

Goats is a very emotional player and he plays on that edge. Sometimes the edge tilts. But when you g...
KEN HITCHCOCK

Brian is a player who has made the best of a situation where he had to wait to get picked up by a te...
KEN HITCHCOCK

They were very close. You never saw Sunny without Phillip and you never saw Phillip without Sunny.
JENNIFER HITCHCOCK

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are go...
KEN HITCHCOCK

Ideas come from everything
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Goats is a very emotional player who plays on the edge, and sometimes that edge tilts.
KEN HITCHCOCK

It's going to be really hard not seeing Phillip in the lunch room stuffing 20 tomatoes in his mouth ...
JENNIFER HITCHCOCK

You've got two countrymen going at it and neither guy really blinked until we got into (overtime) at...
KEN HITCHCOCK

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he say...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear ide...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Revenge is sweet and not fattening
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like every...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Actors are cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

That '70s Show
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

that I am equipped with what other people have called a fiendish sense of humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

dun dun dun dun... dun dun dun dun...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know y...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Existe algo mais importante que a lógica: a Imaginação. Se a idéia é boa, jogue a lógica pela ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it sh...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

[James Stewart once spoke up on behalf of his longtime friend before an audience of peers on the occ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

When he?s healthy, the way this game is played now, it?s built for him. He?s quick. He?s smart. He?s...
KEN HITCHCOCK

If you do things out of time you're weird.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK

We did some things that really make you shake your head.
KEN HITCHCOCK

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.
KEN HITCHCOCK

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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

Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests...
COLLEEN HITCHCOCK

TV has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

[Of the film, Hayes once said that] Hitchcock wanted to do the movie just for fun, for relief from w...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I asked him who did this, and do you know what this man told me with his last breath?
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Here's a choice item, very rare. Only 740,000 were ever made!
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder': As you have seen on the screen; the best wa...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

He was absolutely dominant, ... He controlled the tempo and played a wonderful hockey game. A lot of...
KEN HITCHCOCK

He'll help immensely. Eric gives stability back there. It allows the young guys to go back where the...
KEN HITCHCOCK

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

If I won't be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Brett catches everyone staring at the puck. He's always in the open spaces to shoot. He finds the sn...
KEN HITCHCOCK

I walked in and wrote the scores on the board and walked out. I didn't have to say anything else.
KEN HITCHCOCK

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

For a game when you know you?re going to get checked this hard, we had too many people below the bar...
KEN HITCHCOCK

He [Richards] is just the whole package for me. He's going to be a great player in our league. ... E...
KEN HITCHCOCK

The greatest danger to the church today is not humanism, paganism, atheism or agnosticism. The great...
MARK HITCHCOCK

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I think I've seen everything.
JAYNE HITCHCOCK

We've found that harassers tend to be white collar, don't have a criminal records, are not Internet ...
JAYNE HITCHCOCK

They're good goals. I hope they implement them.
JAYNE HITCHCOCK

We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention...
JAMES HITCHCOCK

About seven figures are being spent on what we're promoting. We definitely want this to be as big as...
JAMES HITCHCOCK

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordin...
JAMES HITCHCOCK

For $100,000 he'd better watch that show every night.
JAMES HITCHCOCK

In theory, one might say judge each case on its individual merits, but some doubt whether it would b...
JAMES HITCHCOCK

O'Brien is well-connected and probably knows what the thinking in Rome is, ... Officially, he's not ...
JAMES HITCHCOCK

Give it up man. They didn't cast you. It's time to let it go.
JAMES HITCHCOCK

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

It?s just a given opportunity. I don?t think we got down after it. The players got aggressive after ...
JENNIFER HITCHCOCK

It'd be sweet to beat them in their own barn.
JENNIFER HITCHCOCK

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines...
ETHAN CANIN

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intell...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.
ETHAN EMBRY

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...
ETHAN HAWKE

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood release...
ETHAN COEN

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affir...
ETHAN CANIN

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only wit...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even ...
ETHAN CANIN

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan wh...
ETHAN CANIN

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.
ETHAN SUPLEE

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is p...
ETHAN CANIN

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone els...
ETHAN HAWKE

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. B...
ETHAN HAWKE

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
ETHAN COEN

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi...
ETHAN ALLEN

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, th...
ETHAN CANIN

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and anoth...
ETHAN CANIN

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's...
ETHAN CANIN

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

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Ethan A. Hitchcock

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

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