From Marnie (1964; screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, based on a novel by Winston Graham) is the second most Freudian of Hitchcock's movies, two quotes:
Marnie: "Men! You say 'no' to one of them, and bingo! you're a candidate for the funny farm."
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Mark Rutland, to Marnie, re Mr. Strutt, the man who has threatened to blackmail her: "He's a businessman. That means he's in business to do business."
"So?"
"So we try to do business with him."
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Quiz question: where does Hitchcock make his cameo in Marnie?
a) leaving one hotel room as Tippi Hedren enters another
b) walking across an elevated pedestrian bridge between two buildings
c) in New York, with a bus door slammed in his face
d) in a newspaper ad for a weight-reduction program
e) in the room where the pianist keeps playing the same theme
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Happy birthday to the "master of suspense," who observed astutely that "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out," a statement that justifies tagging this post under not only "Hitchcock quiz" but also "spontaneous aphorisms." When August 13 lands on a Friday, watch out -- a drunken poet may phone you at midnight while a couple of bats sneak in through the bathroom window.
-- DL
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