Hitchcock Quotes

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

— Noah Baumbach

I love Kubrick.

— Justin Lin

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

— Roberto Benigni

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

— Kirsten Dunst

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

— R. Lee Ermey

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

— Sue Perkins

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

— Jennifer Lynch

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

— R. Lee Ermey

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

— Alex Winter

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

— Tippi Hedren

No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.

— Jim Norton

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

— Francois Truffaut

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

— Tim Roth

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

— Robert Zemeckis

I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.

— Luca Guadagnino

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

— Leonard Maltin

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

— Bob Seger

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three…

— Steven Soderbergh

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other…

— Jacques Rivette

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking…

— Weyes Blood

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of…

— Kate Bush

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there…

— Edith Head

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to…

— Jim Woodring

Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!'

— Divine

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my…

— Martin Scorsese

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the…

— Barbara Broccoli

I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience…

— Edward Jay Epstein

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more…

— Martin Scorsese

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,…

— Camille Paglia

I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I…

— Carlton Cuse

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells…

— Ralph Macchio

Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight…

— Jacki Weaver

When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.

— Eva Marie Saint

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

— James Stewart

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

— Bryan Singer

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

— Richard Peck

“My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people... "A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.”

— Richard W. Perhacs

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

— Teller