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00:05We had to be true very much to the spirit
00:08and the letter of Hitchcock's life
00:09at that time
00:12He was a man of different facets
00:14He liked drama
00:15He liked comedy
00:17I think a lot of people did their homework
00:21They seemed to capture
00:22that period very well
00:23and it was fun
00:26It was interesting
00:28You gotta look into his life
00:30of how he was
00:32I enjoyed the movie because
00:34it brought back a lot of memories
00:36on the set
00:38Because it was real
00:44My vision of Hitchcock
00:47not only comes from
00:48my having spent time around him
00:50and researching and studying him
00:52from the time I was a young boy
00:54to spending a lot of time
00:56around people who knew him
00:58intimately
00:58He was human and vulnerable
01:00and he could be contradictory
01:03and all kinds of things
01:04but they weren't elements
01:06that I pulled from the air
01:07they were things that I heard from
01:10people who worked intimately with him
01:12No American movie has ever found it
01:14necessary to show a toilet
01:17Perhaps we ought to shoot the film in France
01:20Use a bidet instead
01:21The details
01:22and what is up on the screen
01:24is very true
01:26to what Hitchcock would have
01:29seemed to a lot of people
01:31Get off my set!
01:33I have security!
01:34Get off my set!
01:35Stop following me around like a puppy
01:36Get me a drink!
01:37I'm sure he would have been interested in the aspects
01:40that people seem to pick up on him
01:41I don't think he would have been offended
01:44by this
01:44Is this really going to be your next picture, Mr. Hitchcock?
01:47Yes, madam
01:48My only wish is that Ed Gein looks a little more like William Holden
01:52instead of Alma Fudd
01:56It was Anthony Hopkins' performance that captured me
02:00because I was very close to Mr. H
02:04and it was Mr. H up there on the screen
02:07I mean he was really wonderful
02:09He is just so wonderful that he actually made me
02:12who knew Hitchcock
02:14believe that it was Hitchcock
02:16and that's hard to do
02:17Mr. Hitchcock, you're the most famous director in the history of the medium
02:21but you're 60 years old
02:24Shouldn't you just quit while you're ahead?
02:28I think certainly his relationship with his wife
02:30is really founded on lots of research
02:33and lots of first-hand information about how they interacted
02:36They had this loving, affectionate relationship
02:39but there was also, you know
02:42they did know where to bury the knife
02:44right between the shoulder blades
02:46I learned it from your pictures
02:47Some of Hitchcock's more self-possessed qualities
02:51resulted in Alma's credit being sidelined
02:54If you ask me, the credits should read screenplay by Joseph Stefano
02:58and Alma Rennell
02:59and the people who matter know
03:01This film allows not only Alma, the historical figure, to receive some credit
03:08but also produces a very beautiful performance by Dame Helen Mirren
03:14Their relationship too was a lot of wit and intellect
03:18Oh you imp, you've got nudity in there
03:21While her breasts were rather large, it was a challenge not to show them
03:26I think he depended on her a lot more
03:30and I think you get that in the movie
03:33When I see Tony and Helen in the film
03:36they were informed by some kind of supernatural truth
03:39about a real couple
03:42Both of them had their eye on getting it right
03:46you know, one of those kind of things
03:48You may not be the easiest man to live with
03:50but you do know how to cut a picture better than anyone else
03:54except for you
03:56I looked at it as a project that I would have enjoyed working on
04:02because I love to delve into minute little things
04:06and there are minute little things in this picture that you have to watch for
04:10You know, he's sort of like a mythological figure
04:12but his movies are still relevant
04:14so why not go see, you know, something about the mystery of the man
04:19We've reached people
04:22and in the way that Hitchcock movies reach people
04:25It really is an honor to me
04:27when people who really worked with Hitchcock, who really knew him
04:30say, thank you for bringing back a Hitchcock I remember
