Drama Quote by Richard Peck

“Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock”

— Marja McGraw

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

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

— Tippi Hedren

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

— Patricia Highsmith

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

— Alex Winter

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

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

“My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people... "A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.”

— Richard W. Perhacs

“Nowadays, the work of Alfred Hitchcock is admired all over the world. Young people who are just discovering his art through the current rerelease…

— François Truffaut

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get…

— Julian Jarrold

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