【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 11

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He used to tell me that when he first started in the industry, you actually had distributors on the doorsteps in Walter Street, shouting "if I got a film for you, if I got a film for you. " And I think he realised, early on, that even if he wanted to be artistic himself, that you couldn't let this be seen too much, that it would be a great mistake because people wouldn't take you seriously if you did.
Throughout his career, Hitchcock would grouse about the crassness of distributors and the stupidity of studio executives, but rarely would he rebel against them. He never felt comfortable asserting the claims of the artist over the responsibilities of the businessmen.
You can't indulge yourself for 5 million none. A lot of people's jobs taxed to this value. I used to look at the men lining up at Warner Brothers carrying their dinner pails clocking on in a long line, and I said to myself, "Is this an art form? " And that is, therein lies the whole problem between the artistic and the commercial, is the cost of expression.