Actors Quote by Stephen Gillers

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

— Leonard Maltin

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

— Jonathan Demme

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

— Tippi Hedren

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

— Robert Knepper

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

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes…

— Grace Kelly

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such…

— Larry Fessenden

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are…

— Clifford Irving

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people…

— Richard Ayoade

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

— Manuel Puig

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…

— Garry Disher