Chapter 5: Dueling Auteurs “ Well… It’s not a ‘Hitchcock’ picture…”-Alfred Hitchcock to Francois Truffat in regards to Rebecca during the Hitchcock/Truffaut interviews. Good Evening… Time will never change the eternal struggle of two ego’s butting heads over the...
Chapter 4: Experiment “He is the only director I know of who knew absolutely everything that was going to be on the screen. He didn’t have to look through a viewfinder, he knew. This was probably the most difficult picture in that regard because: ‘Was the wall going...
“We won’t allow you to cheat yourself. You must see PSYCHO from the very beginning. Therefore, do not expect to be admitted into the theatre after the start of each performance of the picture. We say no one — and we mean no one — not even the...
Chapter 2: Elaborate Rear Window Dressing ”You really have to keep your eye open in the film, because it’s a complicated thing. And the audience was really with it, I thought that was just amazing. It just bears out the...
Chapter 1: Fanciful Notions “As a matter of fact, that’s how I knew that Cary Grant had died. Every channel on TV was showing that shot of Cary running away from the plane. It’s strange, isn’t it, that such a...
