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193 “But he never . . . dialogue”: Krohn, Hitchcock at Work, 12.

193 “He hardly ever . . . mind”: Jack Cardiff, Magic Hour (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 107.

193 “He had his . . . reel”: Ibid.

194 “They were expecting . . . helpless”: AH, interview by Mike Scott, Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, DVD extra on Hitchcock: The British Years, DVD, 2008.

194 “Not enough people . . . screen”: Anthony Macklin, “It’s the Manner of Telling: An Interview with Alfred Hitchcock,” Film Heritage 11 (1976): 18.

194 “because he knew . . . few”: Peter Bogdanovich in discussion with the author, September 11, 2018.

194 His appointment books . . . directors: AH appointment books, 1956–78, AHC MHL.

195 “These Italian directors . . . technique!”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 495.

195 “I’m not self-indulgent . . . painter”: Charles Thomas Samuels, Encountering Directors (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), 239.

195 “he has indicated . . . Hitchcock”: Ibid., 233.

195 “very good”: Ibid., 235.

196 “was actually an . . . manuscript”: Dolly Haas, SMU.

196 “could be titled . . . Shower”: Chris Hodenfield, “Alfred Hitchcock: Muuuurder by the Babbling Brook,” Rolling Stone, July 29, 1976, https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/alfred-hitchcock-muuuurder-by-the-babbling-brook-59347/.

196 Parker says that . . . Sacrilege: Royal Academy of Arts, Transitional Object [PsychoBarn]: Cornelia Park (London: Royal Academy Publications, 2018), 44.

197 Hitchcock’s own inspiration . . . Hopper: Stephen Rebello, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 68.

197 Parker watched Psycho . . . facade: Cornelia Parker in discussion with the author, April 2019.

197 It was Hitchcock’s . . . moviemaking: Robert Boyle, OHP.

197 “I avoid out-and-out . . . banal”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 103.

197 “fairytales played against . . . environment”: Robert Boyle, OHP.

198 Doc Erickson, the . . . compass: Mac Johnson to Doc Erickson, October 5, 1953, Paramount Pictures Production Records, MHL.

198 Hitchcock insisted on . . . detail: Gordon Cole to Frank Caffey, July 11, 1953, Paramount Pictures Production Records, MHL.

198 The sounds of . . . film: Frank Caffey to Hiller Innes, November 11, 1953, Paramount Pictures Production Records, MHL.

198 “eliminate the blemishes . . . neck”: Herbert Coleman to Luigi Zaccardi, July 11, 1956, Paramount Pictures Production Records, MHL.

198 the director requested . . . operation: AH’s notes for dubbing on Frenzy, October 14, 1971, Peggy Robertson Papers, MHL.

199 “the hidden meanings and symbols”: Andrew Sarris, “The Movie Journal,” Village Voice, June 11, 1960, 8.

199 Before he published . . . about it: Barr, Vertigo, 22.

199 “sometimes a corpse is just a corpse”: Walker, Hitchcock’s Motifs, 131.

200 “semi-unconscious mode of viewing”: D. A. Miller, Hidden Hitchcock (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 45.

200 “mistake, confusion, and . . . cinema”: Ibid., 17.

200 “the too-close viewer . . . there?”: Ibid., 107.

200 Among the hidden . . . anthologies: Ibid., 28, 35.

200 “amused him, and . . . way”: Peter Bogdanovich in discussion with the author, September 11, 2018.

200 In the early . . . a C: Patricia Hitchcock, interviewed by Anwar Brett, “Patricia Hitchcock and James C. Katz Interviews,” February 27, 1997, Anwar Brett tapes, Sound and Moving Images Archive, British Library.

201 In 2012, Vertigo . . . years: Peter Matthews, “Vertigo rises: the greatest film of all time?” Sight & Sound, September 2012, https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time/vertigo-hitchcock-new-number-one

201 “Our lives are lonely but not private”: Raymond Durgnat, The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), 236.

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203 “that degrading side . . . actor”: AH, Markle, “A Talk with Hitchcock, Part Two.”

204 According to figures . . . 1960: Peter Lev, Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 7.

204 “People swarmed out . . . Presley”: Leigh and Nickens, Psycho, 5.

205 “French, German, English, and American”: Barbara Goldsmith, “Bristol-Meyers’ Alfred Hitchcock: His ‘personality’ sells what he derides,” Printers’ Ink, July 18, 1958, 68, Barbara Goldsmith Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

205 Herbert Coleman and . . . diner: Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock, 360; Samuel Taylor, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC, PMC WHS.

205 Mindful of not . . . pictures: Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock, 238.

205 “Hitchcock admits to . . . low-brow”: “Seen on the Screen,” Daily Herald, April 17, 1926, 9.

205 “last word in screen art”: “ ‘The Lodger,’ the Last Word in Screen Art,” Leeds Mercury, October 2, 1926, 6.

205 “only for entertainment”: Ely Herald, September 22, 1927, AHC MHL.

206 “make pictures for . . . screen: Montagu, “Working with Hitchcock,” 190.

206 “were in the . . . significance”: Balcon, Michael Balcon Presents, 27.

206 “You have to . . . audience”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 283.

207 Ingrid Bergman explained . . . projected: Transcript of Donald Spoto’s interview with Ingrid Bergman, DSP UCLA.

207 For the magazine . . . muster: “Ingrid Bergman—as played by Alfred Hitchcock,” Pageant, March 1946, 38–41.

207 “British films before . . . laughing-stock”: Michael Redgrave, In My Mind’s Eye: An Autobiography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983), 9.

207 “You sell to . . . theatre”: Alan Strachan, Secret Dreams: The Biography of Michael Redgrave (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), 161.

208 “sick with nervousness . . . again”: Sheridan Morley, John Gielgud: The Authorized Biography (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 151.

208 “I would never . . . cattle”: AH, Cavett, The Dick Cavett Show.

208 Michael Redgrave was . . . did: Redgrave, In My Mind’s Eye, 125.

208 “cold and sometimes cruel”: Granger, Include Me Out, 109.

209 “something that I’ll . . . set”: Doris Day, SMU.

209 Roy Thinnes sent . . . after: Roy Thinnes to AH, May 25, 1976, AHC MHL. See also McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 16537 of 20272, Kindle.

210 “I’d look over . . . cut it”: William Devane in discussion with the author, November 25, 2018.

210 “do what you . . . floor”: June Morfield, “The One Man Grace Kelly Couldn’t Say ‘No’ To,” TV Radio Mirror, July 1962, 90.

211 “Next to reality . . . dramatic”: “Alfred Hitchcock Reveals His Methods,”