Hitchcock
The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock
Truffaut's book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, working through the films one by one, in the revised edition.
In 1962 Truffaut spent a week interviewing Hitchcock about every film he had made, with an interpreter and a tape recorder. The result works through the career picture by picture, with Hitchcock explaining how effects were built and why choices were made. Revised after his death, it is the book most often named the best ever written about directing.
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Darren Aronofsky
It’s an amazing guide to Hitchcock’s thought process. Truffaut, being a fantastic filmmaker himself, was able to ask really profound, informed questions that really got to the heart of filmmaking. Truffaut got Hitchcock to reveal a lot of the different techniques that he used to put together his monumental body of work.
Interview · August 2011
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