American film Quote by David Mamet

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

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

— Jonathan Demme

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

Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he needed and…

— Jason Reitman

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

— Vilmos Zsigmond

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

— Tippi Hedren

“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read his films.…

— Colin McArthur

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

— Sriram Raghavan

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is…

— John Hurt

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing…

— Claire Danes

Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think…

— Sacha Gervasi

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

— Robert Knepper