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But Psycho was about more than money. The television series had won Hitchcock a younger audience. Psycho was to be their film. Screenwriter Joe Stefano, a high school dropout who was in Freudian analysis at the time, provided a vital link to the drive-in generation.
When I described the opening scene, and said that they are meeting in a hotel room on her lunch hour, and that they're shacking up, I got the feeling that that kind of lit him a little bit. I think that he liked the fact that I was bringing a young man's approach to this.
You never did eat your lunch, did you?
I'd better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Why don't you call your boss and tell him you are taking the rest of the afternoon off? |
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