【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 44

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Paramount all but had sown Psycho. They were happy for it to be made on the Universal backlog and even more pleased when Hitchcock offered to finance the film himself.
For Hitchcock however, Psycho was the biggest gamble of his life. Everyone who worked on the film was aware that budget concerns were uppermost in his mind.
I wanted, for my own sake, to do a big Technicolor wonderful movie, and the first thing that Hitch said to me was "There is a company, American International that's making pictures for about $250,000", and he said "What if we did that." And I think what he meant by that was what if somebody of his caliber directed one of these low-budget movies. And he told me that he had intended to do Psycho for under million dollars, that he was gonna use his TV team. All those people who had worked so beautifully on his series were now gonna work on this movie. And it was all kind of disappointing to me at first.