【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 15

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With 20 films to his credit, "the master of suspense" was by now "master of the studio floor".
He sat on his chair. I thought he reminded me of Buddha. And he wasn't sort of person that everybody could go up and chat to all the time. I mean he was quite sort of remote and self-contained.
Hitch was very much a showman, and so he created that sort of atmosphere around him, and of course one of total authority. There was no other authority on the set. There was nowhere else to look. He was it.
He knew exactly what he wanted. I remember one instant, particular instant, that stayed with me the whole of my life. He walked on the set, on the set, on the very first day, had a script in his hand, put it down on the sound recording desk and sat by another one in the back. He knew exactly what he was gonna do and in his mind the film was already shot.