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[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

— Ingrid Bergman

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have…

— Joseph Stefano

How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

— Frances Fisher

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

— Ray Bradbury

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

— Richard Masur

“Norman was never one for exactness, exactly.”

— Sarah Dessen

“How could he convince her to join him and hitch her buggy to a star when she was bound and determined to hitch it…

— Joanna Jordan

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

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

— Tippi Hedren

Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams

— Anonymous

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

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really…

— Kim Novak