Hitchcock Quotes

I love Kubrick.

— Justin Lin

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

— Jennifer Lynch

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

— Alex Winter

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

— David Mamet

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

— Luca Guadagnino

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

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

— Eva Marie Saint

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

— Bryan Singer

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

— Patricia Highsmith

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

— Terry Southern

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

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

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

— Bob Seger

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

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

— Divine

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

[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

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 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

“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

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

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

— Teller

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

— Bennett Miller

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

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

— Sylvia Sidney

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

— Catherine Crier

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

— Andrew Sarris

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

— Heather O'Rourke

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

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

— Roger Ebert