Hitchcock Quotes · Page 2

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

— Tim Roth

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

— David Mamet

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

— Jonathan Demme

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

— Robert Zemeckis

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

— Luca Guadagnino

“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

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

— Ludwig Goransson

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive…

— Clint Eastwood

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

Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery.

— Susie Dent

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to…

— Jim Woodring

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

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Divine

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes…

— Toby Jones

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

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 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

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

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

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my…

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

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

— Tippi Hedren

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

— Leonard Maltin

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

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

— Stephen Gillers

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

— Saul Bass

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

— Suzanne Brockmann

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

— Kim Novak

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

— Roger Ebert

Champagne and Hitchcock's Vertigo...a perfect combination, if I do say so myself.

— Alison Brie

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

— Janelle Monae

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

— Howard Berger