Top 211 Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with 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.

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

With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.

Saturday mornings, or at night when I'm trying to go to bed, I'll watch Hitchcock mysteries and stuff. I know that's pretty boring, but it feels comfortable. It's called 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.

I like thrillers. That's a genre that I'm really taken with. I love Hitchcock, that thriller style. I'm a student of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

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

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

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

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.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

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.

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.

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 for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

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

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.

I went to film school and studied Alfred Hitchcock. I knew of Alma Reville existence, but had no idea really who she was or how influential she was on him. She stayed in the shadows. Go online, and there are hardly any images or film of her. She really stayed out of the limelight on purpose. She didn't want it, and I think that's one of the reasons that she's really lost in the shadows of Hitchcock's history to a degree.

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

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

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

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

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

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

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

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

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

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

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

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.

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

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.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

Hitchcock loved long convoluted shots that contained a lot of tracking and camera moves.

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

It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.

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

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

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

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

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

Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

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