Hitchcock Quotes

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When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most… — Alfred Hitchcock
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at… — Paul Zollo
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night,… — Rod Taylor
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to… — David Cronenberg
Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and… — Grace Kelly
For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well,… — Kim Novak
Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man… — Joseph Cotten
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today. — Andrew Sarris
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've… — Patricia Highsmith
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be… — Ken Jennings
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called… — Roger Ebert
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how… — Abbas Kiarostami
I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record. — Stan Lee
I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like… — Billy Wilder
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them. — Maurice Jarre
I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you… — Rob Lowe
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. — Jonathan Demme
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's… — Dennis Etchison
The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add… — Kim Novak
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any… — Jim Woodring

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