Hitchcock Quotes · Page 5

If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to…

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Robert Knepper

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

— Leonard Maltin

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

— John Waters

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

— Kim Novak

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

— David Mitchell

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would…

— Atom Egoyan

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

— Noah Baumbach

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and…

— Atom Egoyan

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.…

— Guy Maddin

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter…

— Maurice Jarre

The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you…

— Toby Jones

There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For…

— Walter Murch

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London…

— Helen Mirren

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

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper…

— Harlan Coben

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

— Tippi Hedren

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.…

— John Hurt

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

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

— Kirsten Dunst

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films…

— Abbas Kiarostami

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it.…

— Toby Jones

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his…

— David Cronenberg

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

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Richard Peck