Cinema Quote by 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

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

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a…

— Richard Linklater

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be…

— David Cronenberg

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

— Robert Zemeckis

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

— Robert Knepper

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

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror…

— Gina Philips

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

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

— Leonard Maltin