Hitchcock Quotes

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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.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

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

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.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

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

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.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

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

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

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

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.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

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

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

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

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 add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

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 how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

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

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

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

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

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

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

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

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

I would have loved to have been in a 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.

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

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