Hitchcock Quotes:

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

- Robert Knepper

topic: Red, Hitchcock, Old Days, Red Herrings, Herring

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Real, Clue, Hitchcock

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

- Jonny Greenwood

topic: Important, Remember, Kind, Hitchcock, Intertwined

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

- Joseph Cotten

topic: Men, Doubt, Shadow, Hitchcock, Best Film

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

- Atom Egoyan

source: Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

topic: Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, American Television

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

- Jason Blum

topic: College, Class, Paper, Hitchcock, Hitchcock Movie

When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.

- Sacha Gervasi

topic: Book, Talking, People, Hitchcock

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.

- Karen Walton

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Girl, Crazy, Writing, Hitchcock, Horror Film

Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.

- Catherine Crier

topic: Actors, Range, Said, Hitchcock

I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

- Tilda Swinton

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Thinking, People, Example, Hitchcock, Sensational

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Actors, Casting, Novelists, Hitchcock

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

- Bruno Dumont

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Thinking, Suspense, Cinema, Hitchcock

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

- Stephen Gillers

topic: Movie, Home, Criminals, Hitchcock

Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.

- Martin Scorsese

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: New York, Vision, Theatre, Hitchcock, Vertigo

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

- Rod Taylor

topic: Birthday, Party, Night, Hitchcock, Birthday Party

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

- Grace Kelly

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Taught, And Love, Cinema, Hitchcock, Thanks To Him

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

- Kim Novak

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Answers, Way, Hitchcock

In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

- Bruce Dern

topic: Eye, Acting, Cameras, Hitchcock

There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

- Walter Murch

topic: Ideas, Two, Perfection, Hitchcock

You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

- Mel Brooks

topic: Writing, Thinking, Alzheimer's, Hitchcock, Dementia

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

- Joe Queenan

topic: New York, America, Interesting, Hitchcock, Dahlias

Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

- Judd Apatow

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Girl, Stars, Lost Love, Hitchcock, Relatable

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

- Kirsten Dunst

topic: Hitchcock Movie, Hitchcock

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

- Toby Jones

source: "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

topic: Way, Speak, Sentences, Hitchcock

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

- Harlan Coben

source: "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Interview with Sara Nelson, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

topic: Games, Want, Painting, Hitchcock, Hitchcock Movie

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

- Ken Jennings

topic: Watches, Boards, Physics, Hitchcock, Jeopardy

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

- David Cronenberg

topic: Thinking, Kind, Strings, Hitchcock, Puppeteer

[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I've worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.

- John Hurt

source: Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

topic: Clever, Thinking, Directors, Hitchcock, Bongs

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

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Movie, Gentleman, Flesh, Hitchcock

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

- John Waters

topic: America, Personality, Directors, Hitchcock

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

- Toby Jones

topic: Keys, Elements, Silhouettes, Hitchcock

There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.

- Toby Jones

topic: Moving, Drinking, Thinking, Hitchcock, Smoking And Drinking

I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

- Toby Jones

topic: Men, Fans, Calm, Hitchcock, Inscrutable

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.

- Toby Jones

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Different, Hitchcock, Portrayal

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

- Roman Polanski

topic: Hitchcock

I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.

- Edward Jay Epstein

topic: Atheist, Believe, Thinking, Hitchcock, Exorcist

If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Impact, Feelings, Analyzing, Hitchcock, Impact On Society

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Real, House, Doe, Hitchcock, Estate Agents

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 strictly on an artists canon.

- Claire Danes

topic: Husband, Artist, Canon, Hitchcock, Hitchcock Movie

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

- Aaron Yoo

topic: Genius, Film, My Favorite, Hitchcock

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

- Robert Zemeckis

topic: Kind, Worthwhile, Hitchcock

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

- Kelly Lynch

topic: Looks, Wonder, Wells, Hitchcock

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

- Kim Novak

topic: Hands, Say Anything, Complaining, Hitchcock

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

- Jennifer Lynch

source: "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.

topic: Fans, Bigs, Kurosawa, Hitchcock

The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

- Toby Jones

topic: Artist, Interesting, Want, Hitchcock

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 history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

- Toby Jones

topic: Keys, Shadow, Cinema, Hitchcock

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.

- David Lynch

topic: Art, School, Sound, Hitchcock, Motifs

I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both directors combine moral seriousness with great artistry and, certainly in Hitchcock's case, an enormous respect for plot, for its power to enthrall and delight.

- Adam Ross

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Years, Brain, Tutelage, Hitchcock

I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

- Erdem Moral?oglu

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Strong, Powerful, Age, Hitchcock, Vertigo

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

- Guy Maddin

topic: Independent, America, Race, Hitchcock, Economic History

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

- Clint Eastwood

source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

topic: Hitchcock

Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he needed and I think that's bullshit, even if that was true for that singular filmmaker.

- Jason Reitman

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Hitchcock