Hitchcock Quotes · Page 3

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK”

— Anonymous

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Kelly Lynch

“Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock”

— Marja McGraw

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

— Ingrid Bergman

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”

— Fredric Jameson

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

— Ridley Scott

Hitchcock has, thanks to color, been able to make the cruelty of his scenes almost beautiful

— Peter Cowie

Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You…

— Claudia Gray

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

— Tippi Hedren

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn…

— Peter Weir

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They…

— Vinessa Shaw

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind…

— Richard Linklater

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

— Atom Egoyan

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

— Giles Duley

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had…

— Joel Coen

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one…

— Dario Argento

When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given…

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding…

— Stan Brakhage

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean,…

— Gus Van Sant

We hate it when movies, right off the bat, tell you who this character is, where they're from, why they are the…

— Ryan Fleck

I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can…

— Tilda Swinton

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

— Toby Jones

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

— Sally Kellerman

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

— Howard Berger

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

— Alison Brie

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Janelle Monae

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

— Tippi Hedren

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

— John Logan

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

— Maika Monroe

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

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

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

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and…

— Sriram Raghavan

I've always wanted to do blow with Genghis Khan, 'bet that guy knows how to party. I also think a bottle of…

— Mike Mendez

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know…

— Kim Novak

I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and…

— Steven Berkoff

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

— Clint Eastwood