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François Truffaut:
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In most of your films, you've shown characters divided by a secret that they refuse to reveal to one another. The atmosphere becomes more and more oppressive until finally, they decide to open up and thus liberate themselves. Does that ring true to you? Alfred Hitchcock:
It's true. Yes. François Truffaut:
In the end, you are mostly interested within the framework of the crime story, in filming moral dilemmas. Alfred Hitchcock:
Sure, that's true. François Truffaut:
So, that's my conclusion
[Last lines]
In most of your films, you've shown characters divided by a secret that they refuse to reveal to one another. The atmosphere becomes more and more oppressive until finally, they decide to open up and thus liberate themselves. Does that ring true to you? Alfred Hitchcock:
It's true. Yes. François Truffaut:
In the end, you are mostly interested within the framework of the crime story, in filming moral dilemmas. Alfred Hitchcock:
Sure, that's true. François Truffaut:
So, that's my conclusion
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Fine it's good
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But it's this extraordinary sense of loss
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that he's trying to fill that void
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Um maybe it reaches out to everyone because of that
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You know We could bring our own
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sense of melancholy or loss to it
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Judy Judy I'll tell you this
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These past few days have been the first happy days I've known in a year
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I know
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It's about desire but we all understand that
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We all understand the idea of desire
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That's part of what makes us us
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Movie Summary
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.