Hitchcock Quotes · Page 3

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

— Maika Monroe

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

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK”

— Anonymous

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

— Sean Connery

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

— Robert Knepper

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

— Tippi Hedren

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator…

— Manuel Puig

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

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or…

— Joe Queenan

“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates…

— David Mitchell

Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted…

— Paul Zollo

It's hard enough to make a film without everyone saying, "Hang on, is this version as good as the one Kubrick would…

— Chris Cunningham

If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions.…

— Martin Scorsese

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's…

— Winston Churchill

“best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished…

— A.J. Finn

Hitchcock has, thanks to color, been able to make the cruelty of his scenes almost beautiful

— Peter Cowie

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

— Sally Kellerman

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

— Ingrid Bergman

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

— Kelly Lynch

“Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock”

— Marja McGraw

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

— Michel Hazanavicius

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

— Ridley Scott

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”

— Fredric Jameson

Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he…

— Jason Reitman

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump.…

— David Cronenberg

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that,…

— Claire Danes

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only…

— Clint Eastwood

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never…

— Julian Jarrold

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the…

— Martin Scorsese

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I…

— Bill Hader

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

— Keir Dullea