Hitchcock Quotes

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

— Noah Baumbach

I love Kubrick.

— Justin Lin

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

— Kirsten Dunst

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

— R. Lee Ermey

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

— Jennifer Lynch

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

— Sue Perkins

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

— Roberto Benigni

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

— Tippi Hedren

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

— R. Lee Ermey

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

— Alex Winter

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

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

— Tippi Hedren

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

— Ludwig Goransson

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

— Jason Blum

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

— Stephen Gillers

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited -…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

— Maurice Jarre

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

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm…

— Patricia Highsmith

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as…

— George Stevens, Jr

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer…

— Terry Southern

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

— Toby Jones

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I…

— Larry Fessenden

“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read…

— Colin McArthur

“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

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

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

Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that…

— Robert Green

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you…

— Gus Van Sant

I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to…

— Barry Ptolemy

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

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

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

— Suzanne Brockmann

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

— Saul Bass

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