Hitchcock Filmmaking Quotes

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork. ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music? ~ Martin Scorsese

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it. ~ Robert Rodriguez

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

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

I view filmmaking as a director's medium. ~ James Franco

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. ~ Angie-Marie Delsante

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

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. ~ Jehane Noujaim

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either. ~ Robyn Hitchcock

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. ~ Christopher Nolan

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals. ~ Amy J. Berg

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images. ~ Asif Kapadia

Whatever happened to Search and Discovery in the arts of today? Artists must behave like archaeologists if the guts of visionary filmmaking can happen. They will have to return to the depths of the collective unknown to find out what we're all about. From that universal dream our most individual and forceful voices can emerge. ~ E.E. Halleran

We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy. ~ Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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

You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore. ~ Robyn Hitchcock

We don't have to be blood to be family. ~ Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. ~ Tony Gilroy

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking. ~ Simon Pegg

Dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected. ~ Jane Stanton Hitchcock

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

Lesson Number One in Everworld: There's them, and there's us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that's a victory. ~ Katherine Applegate

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback ... ' to 'The Hulk.' ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. ~ Allison Mack

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. ~ Ridley Scott

The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote in his diary, even before those first incidents: I have said from the first that the United States are the aggressors. . . . We have not one particle of right to be here. . . . It looks as if the government sent a small force on purpose to bring on a war, so as to have a pretext for taking California and as much of this country as it chooses, for, whatever becomes of this army, there is no doubt of a war between the United States and Mexico. . . . My heart is not in this business . . . but, as a military man, I am bound to execute orders. ~ Howard Zinn

To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D. ~ Joe Carnahan

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. ~ Ira Sachs

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end. ~ Ethan Hawke

Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract. ~ David Lynch

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes ... have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts. ~ Wim Wenders

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And if you don't go for great, you won't end up with good. You've got to go beyond your wildest dreams because the exigencies of filmmaking are going to smash you into the ordinary. ~ Fred Schepisi