Robin Wood - quotes

Quotations relating to academic Robin Wood.

The birds represent the eruption of chaos, of unpredictability, and which can be taken to be everything that we don't understand and can't control about our world — not only the physical world but also the world inside us. Underneath all the protective coverings that we use to get through life and which, at the same time, seal us off from other people.

What would have happened if the seagull had not attacked Melanie at that moment? It seems very unlikely at that point that her relationship with Mitch would've developed beyond what it is — Sort of mutual hostility, mutual provocation, all the time. Each of them wants to provoke the other.

It's the bird that destroys all that — the gull attack. And that happens progressively all the way through the film.

— Robin Wood (2000)

source: Documentary: All About The Birds

keywords: Alfred Hitchcock and The Birds (1963)