Quotes About Hitchcock Movies

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

Vilmos Zsigmond

#2. That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.

Philip Kaufman

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

Orson Welles

#4. A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

#5. A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'

Paul Haggis

#6. 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.

David Small

#7. I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

Dianne Feinstein

#8. Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Alfred Hitchcock

#9. 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

#10. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Alfred Hitchcock

#11. I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

Xavier Dolan

#12. I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

Carlton Cuse

#13. 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

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

Tippi Hedren

#15. 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

#16. Through education, I was completely changed to become a productive citizen of the world. And what is true in the life of one is true in the life of whole communities and entire nations: education has the power to transform.

Ben Carson

#17. 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

#18. I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

Gina Philips

#19. We are not teaching to the test; we are living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#20. A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

#21. 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

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

Alex Winter

#23. We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.

Hillary Clinton

#24. He's just not that into you.

Greg Behrendt

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

Peter Jackson

#26. The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Alfred Hitchcock

#27. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

Heather Mitts