Hitchcock Quotes · Page 2

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

— Terry Southern

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

— Patricia Highsmith

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

— Armistead Maupin

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

— Matt Skiba

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

— Bennett Miller

Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.

— Catherine Crier

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

— Sylvia Sidney

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his…

— Jason Blum

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most,…

— Anthony Hopkins

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes…

— Toby Jones

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

— Orson Welles

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to…

— Nicole Kidman

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

— Sarah Vowell

Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery.

— Susie Dent

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know…

— Kim Novak

I've always wanted to do blow with Genghis Khan, 'bet that guy knows how to party. I also think a bottle of…

— Mike Mendez

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story…

— Tom Tykwer

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the…

— Karen Walton

We hate it when movies, right off the bat, tell you who this character is, where they're from, why they are the…

— Ryan Fleck

I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can…

— Tilda Swinton

Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I…

— Toby Jones

“There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but…

— Sacha Gervasi

Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most…

— Daniel Clowes

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

— Stephen Gillers

Hitchcock loved long convoluted shots that contained a lot of tracking and camera moves.

— Saul Bass

“All babies look like Alfred Hitchcock. Or Winston Churchill.”

— Suzanne Brockmann

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

— Kim Novak

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

— Leonard Maltin

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

— Heather O'Rourke

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

— Andrew Sarris

“Hitchcock said: ‘There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

— Sofie Kelly

I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

— Ludwig Goransson

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

— Tippi Hedren

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

— Tippi Hedren

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

— John Logan

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

— Maika Monroe

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

— Howard Berger