Peter Bogdanovich: But you never watch your films with an audience – don’t you miss hearing them scream?
Alfred Hitchcock: No. I can hear them when I’m making the picture.
Peter Bogdanovich: But you never watch your films with an audience – don’t you miss hearing them scream?
Alfred Hitchcock: No. I can hear them when I’m making the picture.
Hmmmm. Confident imagination. With some reason, I suppose.
Indeed. He understood the audience better than anyone. The mix of subjective/objective shots he always used – all of that stuff. He had the screams in his head probably when he sat down and wrote the treatments – it was already fully formed in his head.