Alfred Hitchcock....Some Short Interview Excerpts

[cleoncleoncleon]

1 of 80 people likes, Sex and the City 2...

[fidelio1980]

The woman who asked him why he'd never made any comedies was an idiot.

Not because she didn't regard films like Rope as being comedies (even though Hitchcock apparently saw it that way, at least on some level). But because she didn't even realize that he'd made outright comedies like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Trouble With Harry.

[zoyclem]

You put together a nice collage of clips.

[ZachPankratz]

Q: How come you've never had any comedies? A: But every film I make is a comedy

[JohanR888]

great. thanks for uploading.

[GEVMM]

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[Bestmanme08]

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour series in general is discussed in great new bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter) at amazon!

[relyanddefy]

bit up himself wasnt he?

[greasedgorilla]

Thanks for the upload

[Xendinthian]

Damn, he REALLY didn't like actors.

"Have you ever been tempted to become an actor yourself?"

"Nothing so low as that."

[ThatsGoodTellivision]

no he loves actors, it's just his way of directing actors was different, and most actors didn't like it.

[puccini007]

A showman,

the greatest film director ever.

[revankader]

his movies are a text book for directors to understand. i doubt common people see the art in his work. unless they are told about it of course.

[gregart999]

Greetings from Baden Baden,Germany.

[darkprose]

"But every film I make IS a comedy." Absolutely.

I hope he is enjoying his "clear horizon," while we enjoy his magisterial legacy.

[relyanddefy]

how so?

[darkprose]

I had to look back to what I had written -- how so about his films being comedies or the clear horizon thing?

[relyanddefy]

does he mean just black comedy?

[darkprose]

Yes, I think so. He once said that he found Psycho very amusing -- I definitely think he meant it in a very dry kind of way. Murder and mayhem was often the subject of his jokes. It could be read another way, which is that the subject of his films were never terribly serious -- it was the medium, film itself, which is of absolute importance. Narrative, for him, was a necessary evil, but almost incidental. Like most things, it's an ambiguous claim of Hitch's.

[relyanddefy]

for your first reading i do understand the concept of black comedy, but to outright say that murder is comedic is just stupid whoever says it. i like the idea of your second point.

[n11n12]

He was once misquoted as saying actors and actresses are nothing but cattle, and he corrected this by instead saying they should be treated as cattle.

That's why he's my hero. Damn near everything he said and did was pure gold.

[SuperNosfe1994]

great, rare images

[A8768]

Thanks for posting the material. A real pleasure watching it.

[hametaled]

great answers.

thank u for uploading

[waynealexander1]

Excellent...thank you for posting these interviews...great comments from the Master of Suspense!

[contactbry]

Wow. These are some of the most insightful interviews into Hitch's existence as a filmmaker.