Hitchcock Quotes · Page 2

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

— Leonard Maltin

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

— Teller

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Richard Peck

“My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people... "A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.”

— Richard W. Perhacs

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

— Patricia Highsmith

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

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

— Julian Jarrold

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

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

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

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

— David Cronenberg

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

— Jason Reitman

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

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

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

— Paul Zollo

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

— David Mitchell

I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock…

— Siouxsie Sioux

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now,…

— Ken Jennings

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in…

— Roman Polanski

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Bennett Miller

No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.

— Jim Norton

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

— Tim Roth

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

— Luca Guadagnino

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

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

— David Mamet

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

— Robert Zemeckis

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

— Leonard Maltin

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

— Bryan Singer

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

— Eva Marie Saint

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

— James Stewart

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

— Sean Connery

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

— Tippi Hedren

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