Top 100 Quotes About Alfred Hitchcock
#1. I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
Alfred Hitchcock
#3. 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
#5. Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
#8. Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.
Jacki Weaver
#9. As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.
Martin Scorsese
#10. It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
Alfred Hitchcock
#12. My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Darin Strauss
#13. I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock
#15. Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
#16. The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
Alfred Hitchcock
#17. These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
#18. Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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#19. I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
Alfred Hitchcock
#21. My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people...
"A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.
Richard W. Perhacs
#22. The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well ...
Alfred Hitchcock
#24. I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock
#25. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
#27. A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
#28. With horror stories in general, I try and take Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock's advice and convey to the audience: Everyone has something to feel guilty about.
Chris Mentillo
#29. 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
#30. 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?
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#31. In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
Alfred Hitchcock
#32. 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.
Stan Lee
#33. The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
Bill Buford
#34. To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
Alfred Hitchcock
#35. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
#36. Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
Alfred Hitchcock
#37. When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
David Gerrold
#39. When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
Alfred Hitchcock
#40. 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.
Tippi Hedren
#41. Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock
#42. Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
Alfred Hitchcock
#43. Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
Alfred Hitchcock
#44. Atticus, I think we're being stalked by the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. First it was a Vulture adn now two giant ravens are coming our way. Oberon
Kevin Hearne
#45. I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.
Jim Woodring
#46. Great horror stories of books and movies have seemingly come from some aspect of real-life events, and human behavior. This is evident as far back as Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho. The movie was based on a serial killer named, Ed Gein in Wisconsin.
Chris Mentillo
#47. I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
Alfred Hitchcock
#48. Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
Alfred Hitchcock
#50. A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
Alfred Hitchcock
#51. Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.
Alfred Hitchcock
#52. I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Alfred Hitchcock
#55. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock
#56. Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
Alfred Hitchcock
#57. Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Alfred Hitchcock
#58. 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.
Kim Novak
#59. The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
#60. Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Alfred Hitchcock
#61. Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
Kelly Lynch
#63. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
Alfred Hitchcock
#64. 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.
Tippi Hedren
#65. T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
#66. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.
Claudia Gray
#73. Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
#74. This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
Alfred Hitchcock
#75. A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
Alfred Hitchcock
#76. I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
Alfred Hitchcock
#77. In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
Alfred Hitchcock
#79. There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock
#80. 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.
David Chase
#82. A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
Alfred Hitchcock
#84. In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
#85. One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
Alfred Hitchcock
#86. When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock
#87. If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Alfred Hitchcock
#88. I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock
#90. I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Alfred Hitchcock
#91. 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.
Toby Jones
#93. All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
Alfred Hitchcock
#94. People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
Alfred Hitchcock
#95. A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
Alfred Hitchcock
#96. I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
Alfred Hitchcock
#97. The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
#98. Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock
#100. One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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