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François Truffaut:
"Vertigo" is one of your most poetic films. It's more poetic than dramatic. The film has a dreamlike quality, a slowness, something contemplative that your other films don't have, which are often built on rapid movement, on speed. Alfred Hitchcock:
Yes. Here you are dealing with the point of view of an emotional man. François Truffaut:
What interested you most about the story? Alfred Hitchcock:
I was intrigued with the efforts to create a woman, after another, in the image of a dead woman
"Vertigo" is one of your most poetic films. It's more poetic than dramatic. The film has a dreamlike quality, a slowness, something contemplative that your other films don't have, which are often built on rapid movement, on speed. Alfred Hitchcock:
Yes. Here you are dealing with the point of view of an emotional man. François Truffaut:
What interested you most about the story? Alfred Hitchcock:
I was intrigued with the efforts to create a woman, after another, in the image of a dead woman
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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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I think Kim Novak coming out of the bathroom
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Movie Summary
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
