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Hitchcock/Truffaut

There is sometimes a tendency among filmmakers to forget the audience. I personally am...

Alfred Hitchcock:
There is sometimes a tendency among filmmakers to forget the audience. I personally am interested in the audience. I mean that one's film should be designed for 2,000 seats and not 1 seat. This to me is the power of the cinema. It is the greatest known mass medium there is in the world

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HITCHCOCK There is sometimes a tendency among filmmakers
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WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH
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to forget the audience
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I personally am interested in the audience
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I mean that one's film should be designed for 2 000 seats
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and not one seat
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This to me is the power of the cinema
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It is the greatest known mass medium there is in the world
Duration
35 seconds
Views
383
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:24
Uploaded
Nov 15, 2022
Genres
documentary
Production
Cohen Media Group,ARTE France Cinéma,Artline Films

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Movie Summary

Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
I personally am interested in the audience - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:33
I personally am interested in the audience
It doesn't matter where the film goes - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:16
It doesn't matter where the film goes
It was a very interesting construction - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:14
It was a very interesting construction
What I call the rising curve shape of a story - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:20
What I call the rising curve shape of a story
The scene with John Gavin and Janet Leigh - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:14
The scene with John Gavin and Janet Leigh
The scenes in the office are kind of all right you know - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:37
The scenes in the office are kind of all right you know
It was necessary to make the robbery - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:25
It was necessary to make the robbery
The scene with the policeman - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:26
The scene with the policeman
She steals money - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:35
She steals money
The very first screening of that film - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:36
The very first screening of that film
Seven days 70 setups - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:20
Seven days 70 setups
At that time as it is now we expect certain things - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:36
At that time as it is now we expect certain things
People will say What a terrible thing to make - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:32
People will say What a terrible thing to make
We better not have cigars you are right - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:10
We better not have cigars you are right
Hitchcock and Truffaut - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:35
Hitchcock and Truffaut
After the first edition of the book was published in 1966 - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:34
After the first edition of the book was published in 1966
The Lodger was the first time I'd exercised any style - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:06
The Lodger was the first time I'd exercised any style
The last completed project of Truffaut's life - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:24
The last completed project of Truffaut's life
Not the television star not the Master of Suspense - Hitchcock/Truffaut 00:31
Not the television star not the Master of Suspense