American Quote by Orson Welles

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

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

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

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

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 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

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration…

— Toby Jones

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

— Jonathan Demme

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

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

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

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

— Andrew Sarris