Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract.… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!' — Divine Copy Share Image
Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films. — Aaron Yoo Copy Share Image
There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They… — Erdem Moral?oglu Copy Share Image
Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose… — Joseph Cotten Copy Share Image
I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and… — David Small Copy Share Image
I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Saturday mornings, or at night when I'm trying to go to bed, I'll watch Hitchcock mysteries and stuff. I know that's pretty… — Tim Robinson Copy Share Image
It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In 'Snehithiye,' I adopted a Hitchcockian approach on the premise that a woman's only friend after marriage is her husband. — Priyadarshan Copy Share Image