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

  Francois Truffaut

  Misunderstood, Whole Life, Misunderstanding

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• [Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

  John Hurt

  Directors, Cinema, Literature

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• 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.

  Maurice Jarre

  Fighting, Littles, Bitterness

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Peck

  Drama, World, Shannon

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• 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

  People, Hollywood, Made

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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

  Heather O'Rourke

  Swim, Mystery, Nancy

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• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Voice, Shapes, Hard

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

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• I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

  David Cronenberg

  Games, Guy, Directors

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com.

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• I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Want, Surface

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Males, Female

  "Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. May 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Dream, Independent, Careers

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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

  Bob Seger

  Book, Captains, Heroic

  Song: Revisionism Street

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Documentaries, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

  Dennis Etchison

  Doors, Contemporary Fiction, Style

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• 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

  Time, Fun, Want

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Add, Way

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

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• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

  Toby Jones

  Beautiful, Light, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think it's all good to have a healthy debate about who Hitchcock was and what that means to people. He means a lot of different things to a lot of different people because the films are so great. If the movies were not great, no one would be bothering to show any interest.

  Sacha Gervasi

  Mean, Thinking, Views

  Source: collider.com

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

  Robert Knepper

  Red, Old Days, Herring

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Twilight, Years, Australia

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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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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• 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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