Adore Quote by John Hurt

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

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned…

— Tippi Hedren

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini,…

— Joe Queenan

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

— Linda Blair

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

— Ryan Reynolds

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

— Clive Owen

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

— Margot Asquith

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image…

— Toby Jones

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

— Jennifer Lynch

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

— Tippi Hedren

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

— Farah Khan