Hitchcock Quotes

• 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

  Important, Kind, Remember

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

  Sean Connery

  Men, Faces, Old Man

  Interview in the "Saturday Evening Post", June 6, 1964.

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Film, Knows, Ifs

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• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Personality, Giants

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Needs, Reassuring, Enough

  "Toby Jones Talks the ‘Twisted Love Story’ of ‘The Girl’ and Finding Hitchcock Under Four Hours of Prosthetics". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

  Helen Mirren

  Ignorant, Arrogant, Starting Out

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• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Boards, Stories

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• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  Objectivity, Narrators, Cameras

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• The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Suspense, Bombs

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

  Teller

  Kids, Dark, Sides

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

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• Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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• As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

  Tippi Hedren

  Believe, Looks, Psycho

  "Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’". Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. October 15, 2012.

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

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Clue, Havens

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

  Tippi Hedren

  Careers, Ruins, Obsession

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• 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

  Drama, Directors, Fabulous

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

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Suspense Novels, Fields

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• Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

  Tippi Hedren

  Mind, Strange

  "When Sienna Miller met Tippi Hedren". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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

  Janelle Monae

  Scare, Psycho, My Favorite

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

  Tippi Hedren

  Thinking, Want, Common

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• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Strong, Character, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Darkness, Giants, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Tippi Hedren

  Strong, Fighting, Way

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• The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

  Richard Ayoade

  Character, Talking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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

  David Mamet

  Talking, People, Film

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Thinking, Bumps, Minutes

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