Veronica Cartwright - quotes

Quotations relating to actress Veronica Cartwright...

You know, because birds are so common — I mean, you see them all the time — you think of them as basically being your friends. But after doing the Birds, yes, you did start looking at birds a lot differently. I've never seen so many crows on our front yard. I never knew there were that many of them until after doing this movie, and you! You started looking at them a lot differently.

— Veronica Cartwright (2000)

source: Documentary: All About The Birds

keywords: The Birds (1963)

Film Production

A lot of those birds were cardboard cut outs and sort of stuffed birds that were put on the wires, and they just kept adding to them and adding to them. And I asked him... ever the curious child. I asked him. I said, "Well, isn't it going to look fake on camera?" And he says, "No." Because he interspersed real birds with them. And he says, "Your eye — it's the illusion. You see movement from one, you assume they're all moving." And it's absolutely true. You sit there and you watch that movie, and you could swear that they're all moving just by interspersing live ones here and there. I mean, he had so many things. I just kept asking questions, and he never seemed to mind answering them either.

— Veronica Cartwright (2000)

source: Documentary: All About The Birds

keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963), and production