Steven Spielberg Had to Think Like Alfred Hitchcock Steven Spielberg on the set of Jaws “I had no choice but to figure out how to tell the story without the shark. So I just went back to Alfred Hitchcock. ‘What would Hitchcock do in a situation like this?’…It’s what we don’t see which is truly frightening.” Read More
Universal Studios Hollywood TV Commercial with Alfred Hitchcock (1977) Hitchcock stated, "Isn’t that the boy who made the fish movie? I could never sit down and talk to him…because I look at him and feel like such a wh*re .... because I’m the voice of the Jaws ride [at Universal Studios]. They paid me a million dollars. And I took it and I did it."
William Hitchcock, probably with his first son, William, outside the family shop in London, c. 1900; the sign above the store says "W. Hitchcock". The Hitchcocks used the pony to deliver groceries.
"The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock Before “Jaws” was even a dream the hundreds of birds found in Bodega Bay were not the usual subject of horror films. Certainly the film animals that inhabited horror films were not intelligent with an ability to act in unison. Alfred Hitchcock’s brilliance wove those disparate themes together for his groundbreaking horror film, “The Birds.” READ MORE
Tippi Hedren The Birds - Her Classy 1960s Fashion Tippi Hedren wearing a black suit in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) READ MORE
Hitchcock: He Always Did Give Us Knightmares Roger Ebert January 02, 1980 In 1980, Alfred Hitchcock was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. "Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, was not giving interviews Monday. His office at Universal Studios said Sir Alfred would, however, have a press conference at 11:30 a.m.Thursday, "after official confirmation has been received." "How typical of Hitchcock, to wait until he was sure. Knighthood conferred Monday by Queen Elizabeth was long overdue for the most distinguished director in British film history. Hitchcock will be 80 this year and has directed more than 50 films, all but one of them thrillers in a macabre vein." READ MORE "To be knighted by the queen is, of course, the highest honor that can come to a British commoner (and Hitchcock, son of a greengrocer, has always been ferociously a commoner). The actual knighting ceremony will take place later this year, and Hitchcock expects to travel to England so that Queen Elizabeth can tap him lightly on both shoulders with a sword. It is a tribute to our macabre expectations for anything involving Hitchcock that the mental picture of Sir Alfred being tapped by a sword summons up fantasies in which Elizabeth then seizes the sword in both hands and..."