Hitchcock Quotes · Page 2

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though…

— David Cronenberg

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

— Toby Jones

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

You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia…

— Mel Brooks

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

— Roger Ebert

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

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there.…

— Anonymous

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

— Kate Bush

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

— Tippi Hedren

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

— Francois Truffaut

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical…

— Rod Taylor

[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think…

— John Hurt

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

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

— Janelle Monae

Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable…

— Judd Apatow

I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my…

— Adam Ross

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

— Aaron Yoo

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to…

— Toby Jones

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…

— Roger Ebert

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that…

— Kim Novak

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock…

— Jonny Greenwood

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

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

— Kelly Lynch