【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 43

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Psycho is my first attempt at a shocker. In other words, it has in its content certain episodes which do shock. In some sense it could be called a horror film, but the horror only comes to you after you've seen it when you get home in the dark.
This was the last picture on his commitment to Paramount. And I know that they were hoping for another North by Northwest, or this grand extravaganza, colour, everything, and that's to do a black-and-white film noir little picture. I mean, they were, you know, just threw up their hands and they were horrified.
I couldn't believe it. I said Hitch, why did you give this to me to read? I said this belongs in your TV, you know, not in the feature films. The brutal killing? The Peeping Tom business? It was a cheap kind of a picture, not kind of a picture, not Hitchcock's kind of a picture. I didn't think. I said Hitch, I don't want any part of this picture.