Hitchcock Quotes
A love story between the influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959.
Alfred Hitchcock: I'm under extraordinary pressures on this picture and the least you can do is give me your full support.
Alma Reville: Full support! We've mortgaged our house! I'm your wife! I celebrate with you when the reviews are good. I cry for you when they are bad! I put up with all those people who look through me as if I were invisible because all they see is the great and glorious ALFRED HITCHCOCK!
Alma Reville: Full support! We've mortgaged our house! I'm your wife! I celebrate with you when the reviews are good. I cry for you when they are bad! I put up with all those people who look through me as if I were invisible because all they see is the great and glorious ALFRED HITCHCOCK!
Ed Gein: This is my favorite place. Just shut the door, make the world go away.
Alfred Hitchcock: Don't you ever get lonely, out here?
Ed Gein: I can always talk to my mother.
[the police start to raid Ed's house]
Ed Gein: That's strange.
[the police move upstairs]
Ed Gein: That's my mother's room. That's my mother's room.
Ed Gein: [starts crying] You can't go in there! That's my mother's room!
[sobs]
Alfred Hitchcock: Don't you ever get lonely, out here?
Ed Gein: I can always talk to my mother.
[the police start to raid Ed's house]
Ed Gein: That's strange.
[the police move upstairs]
Ed Gein: That's my mother's room. That's my mother's room.
Ed Gein: [starts crying] You can't go in there! That's my mother's room!
[sobs]
Alma Reville: I'm going to ask you this once, and I'll never mention it again.
[pause]
Alma Reville: Why this one, Hitch?
[pause]
Alma Reville: It's not just because so many people are saying *no*, is it?
Alfred Hitchcock: Do you remember the fun we had when we started out all those years ago?
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: We didn't have any money then, did we? We didn't have any time, either. But we took risks, do you remember?
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: We experimented. We invented new ways of making pictures because we had to.
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: I just want to feel that kind of
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: freedom again.
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: Like we used to, you know?
[pause]
Alma Reville: Why this one, Hitch?
[pause]
Alma Reville: It's not just because so many people are saying *no*, is it?
Alfred Hitchcock: Do you remember the fun we had when we started out all those years ago?
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: We didn't have any money then, did we? We didn't have any time, either. But we took risks, do you remember?
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: We experimented. We invented new ways of making pictures because we had to.
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: I just want to feel that kind of
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: freedom again.
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: Like we used to, you know?
[first lines]
Henry Gein: It's lucky it didn't reach the house.
Ed Gein: Yeah.
Henry Gein: You know, there's gonna be a lot more jobs at that factory in Milwaukee come June. I could put in a word.
Ed Gein: You can't leave us, Henry. She needs us both.
Henry Gein: Can you stop being a mama's boy for one second? I'm not trying to hurt you, but Jesus, you gotta live your own life sometime. That woman can take care of her own god...
[Ed hits Henry with a shovel]
Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?
Henry Gein: It's lucky it didn't reach the house.
Ed Gein: Yeah.
Henry Gein: You know, there's gonna be a lot more jobs at that factory in Milwaukee come June. I could put in a word.
Ed Gein: You can't leave us, Henry. She needs us both.
Henry Gein: Can you stop being a mama's boy for one second? I'm not trying to hurt you, but Jesus, you gotta live your own life sometime. That woman can take care of her own god...
[Ed hits Henry with a shovel]
Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well
[pause]
Alfred Hitchcock: we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?
Alma Reville: You know, Hitch always says that your private life is in danger of being more entertaining than any of your plots.
Whitfield Cook: Well, I'm surprised he let me have you for the whole afternoon. Especially looking so beautiful. So, tell me, what are you working on these days?
Alma Reville: Me? I'm satisfied working in my garden.
Whitfield Cook: Well, that's one lucky garden.
Alma Reville: You know, all this relentless sycophancy is actually giving me indigestion. What are you after?
Whitfield Cook: I was hoping that you may be able to apply your considerable pruning skills to this.
Alma Reville: Ah, all is finally revealed. Whit, you are a little predictable, you know?
Whitfield Cook: The most fun I ever had was working with you.
Whitfield Cook: Well, I'm surprised he let me have you for the whole afternoon. Especially looking so beautiful. So, tell me, what are you working on these days?
Alma Reville: Me? I'm satisfied working in my garden.
Whitfield Cook: Well, that's one lucky garden.
Alma Reville: You know, all this relentless sycophancy is actually giving me indigestion. What are you after?
Whitfield Cook: I was hoping that you may be able to apply your considerable pruning skills to this.
Alma Reville: Ah, all is finally revealed. Whit, you are a little predictable, you know?
Whitfield Cook: The most fun I ever had was working with you.
