Conversation with Alfred Hitchcock

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.

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2 Responses to Conversation with Alfred Hitchcock

  1. ted says:

    Hmmmm. Confident imagination. With some reason, I suppose.

  2. red says:

    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.

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