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00:30It conclusively changed people's opinions about Hitchcock.
00:34It was a director talking about his own work in a way that was utterly unpretentious.
00:38You know, they were talking about the craft.
00:43Seven days.
00:44Ça durera sept jours.
00:45Seventy setups.
00:46And I shot some of it in slow motion.
00:49Where it sort of lays out all of the cutting pattern, contextualizing what the work of a director truly is.
00:58You know, I had a paperback.
01:00It's not even a book anymore.
01:01It's like a stack of papers.
01:07The Truffaut Hitchcock book was really revolutionary.
01:10We became radicalized as movie makers.
01:12It was almost as if somebody had taken a weight off our shoulders and said, yes, we can embrace this.
01:16We could go.
01:19I have a favorite little saying to myself, logic is dull.
01:26This is somebody whose mind is racing, filled with ideas.
01:29That's why we refer to him all the time.
01:31He's making floors out of glass so he can show the apartment above.
01:35Things that make cinema magic.
01:38I'm never satisfied with the ordinary.
01:40I've tried to play the audience like an organ.
01:45You know, there are certain rules, and he destroyed all those rules.
01:59I am interested in the audience.
02:02Obviously, they're going to sit there and say, show me.
02:05I know what's coming next.
02:07I have to say, do you?
02:08I know, I wait to go.
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02:14I know.
02:14I don't know, I love you.