To get the real low-down on Hitchcock you must read the interviews with Truffault (French director) You can access them here:
tp://books.google.com/books?id=XTZsFGuUXNYC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=hitchcoc k+frenh+interview
The presence of the French translator is something one becomes used to.
Points to remember are that in Hitchcock films there is an undercurrent of guilt which everyone shares - this is a product of his Catholicism.
Also he likes dirty jokes - the crofter sequence in the 39 steps is an example.
He hates food, he hates mothers - see the sequence in Frenzy where the mother butts out a cigarette in a fried egg. He is not at all happy with sex but has a thing for frigid blondes. He rather likes birds!
And there is much more.
But Truffault scooped everyone - it's indispensible!
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