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84 Hitchcock quotes by 62 unique authors

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such… — Anthony Hopkins
They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring… — Toby Jones
I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was… — Helen Mirren
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie. — Janelle Monae
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed… — Camille Paglia
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 in literature. — Manuel Puig
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to… — Gus Van Sant
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things. — Teller
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. — Francois Truffaut
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
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies. — Alex Winter
Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities,… — Claudia Gray
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
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that… — Ingrid Bergman
Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He… — Ralph Macchio
Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything. — Giles Duley
Truffaut loved Hitchcock. — Noah Baumbach
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies. — Jason Blum
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston. — John Logan
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put… — Kate Bush
Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. — Sylvia Sidney
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies… — Gina Philips
Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. — Armistead Maupin
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in… — Tippi Hedren

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