Alfred hitchcock Quote by Jim Woodring

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…

— Camille Paglia

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

“There are two kinds of directors; those who have the public in mind when they conceive and make their films and those who don't…

— François Truffaut

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

— Alex Winter

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire…

— Toby Jones

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked…

— David Cronenberg

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.…

— Ralph Macchio

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to…

— Kate Bush

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have…

— David Chase

When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book…

— Sacha Gervasi

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…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I love Hitchcock's films because even though you knew who did it right at the beginning, he still kept the audience engaged till the…

— Atul Kulkarni