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Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.