11 “the sadness of . . . films”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Why I Am Afraid of the Dark,” in Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, ed. Sidney Gottlieb, trans. Claire Marrone (London: University of California Press, 1997), 143. Originally published as “Pourquoi J‘ai Peur la Nuit,” Arts: Lettres, Spectacles, no. 777 (June 1–7, 1960): 1, 7.
11 huge impact on Hitchcock: Alfred Hitchcock, “Columbus of the Screen,” Film Weekly, February 21, 1931, 9.
11 San Francisco Bay Area Transit system: Hitchcock’s interest in working the Bay Area rail network into the script of Family Plot is evident in the transcript of his story conferences with the film’s screenwriter, Ernest Lehman. Ernest Lehman Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
11 the distance between . . . filmed: Discussion of these issues occurs in various letters and memos in the folder relating to The Short Night, AHC MHL.
13 “Your problem, Hitch . . . adult”: Herbert Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir (Lanham, MD; Toronto; Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2007), 220.
13 “I really don’t . . . arms?”: The Birds story conference, February 24, 1962, AHC MHL.
13 “pretty little fat . . . realistic”: Vicky Lebeau, Childhood and Cinema (London: Reaktion Books, 2008), 37.
14 per the critic Michael Walker: Michael Walker, Hitchcock’s Motifs (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005), 98–110.
15 “I loved the . . . stuff”: Rex Reed, “Film Violence,” Calgary Herald, June 17, 1972, 65.
16 “The bomb is . . . wish?”: F. S. Jennings, “Master of Suspense,” The Era, December 9, 1936, 13.
16 “there is a . . . code”: James Chapman, Hitchcock and the Spy Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 102, citing Anthony Lejeune, ed., The C.A. Lejeune Film Reader (Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1991), 107.
17 “Had the audience . . . outraged”: Alfred Hitchcock, “The Enjoyment of Fear,” Good Housekeeping, February 1949, 243.
17 “The boy was . . . deliberately”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 109.
17 The director Gus Van Sant . . . heart: Gus Van Sant in discussion with the author, October 17, 2018.
18 From the television . . . filmography: Ibid.
18 “a 3 foot . . . neck”: Donald Du Pre to AH, undated, AHC MHL.
20 “Not too much . . . reasonable”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 259.
20 About a year . . . smash: Jay Presson Allen, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC, PMC WHS.
20 “solid, unblurred images”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 51.
22 In an earlier . . . mother: notes on script, “MELANIE—FINAL SEQUENCE,” April 9, 1962, AHC MHL.
22 “I would go . . . before”: William Baer, Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters (Westport, CT; London: Praeger, 2008), 81.
22 “I said to Hitchcock . . . stopping him”: “Everyone’s Wicked Uncle,” BBC Radio 3, 1999.
23 “I think I . . . people”: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 199 of 5468, Kindle.
24 “Your father’s dead . . . dissociation”: Ibid., loc. 483 of 5468, Kindle.
24 Sixteen thousand Londoners . . . 1918: Mark Honigsbaum, Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (London: Macmillan, 2009), 105.
24 “Londoners almost without . . . everything”: Jerry White, Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War (London: Bodley Head, 2014), i.
25 “relentless disruption and . . . night”: Ibid., 215.
25 “did not impinge much on him”: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 488 of 5468, Kindle.
26 “inspired by a . . . look”: “Westcliff Cine Club Visits Mr Hitchcock in Hollywood,” https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-westcliff-cine-club-visits-mr-hitchcock-in-hollywood-1963-online
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28 “passion for films . . . learn”: Michael Balcon, Michael Balcon Presents: A Lifetime of Films (London: Hutchinson, 1969), 19.
28 “I’m sure that . . . to do so”: Ibid.
28 “a twilight of . . . landscapes”: Lottie Eisner, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt (Davis: University of California Press, 2008), 8.
28 “know-it-all son of a bitch”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 51.
28 “I can smile . . . ghastly”: Alfred Hitchcock, “My Screen Memories—I: I Begin with a Nightmare,” Film Weekly, May 2, 1936, 16.
30 “the suddenness of . . . blue”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 268.
30 “a rotting corpse . . . knifed”: Keith Brace, “The Trouble with Alfred,” Birmingham Daily Post, August 5, 1960, 3.
30 “reflect in any . . . mind”: Alfred Hitchcock and Frederic Wertham, “A Redbook Dialogue,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, 152. Originally published in Redbook 120 (April 1963): 71, 108, 110–12.
30 “sadism, perversion, bestiality . . . dangerous”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Why ‘Thrillers’ Thrive,” Picturegoer, January 18, 1936, 15.
30 Staff of his . . . pale: Peggy Robertson, OHP.
30 “I did what . . . home”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 311.
31 “people will immediately . . . corpse”: Fallaci, “Mr. Chastity,” in The Egotists, 243.
31 “I’ve spent so . . . hold of”: John Russell Taylor, “Surviving: Alfred Hitchcock,” Sight & Sound 46 (Summer 1977): 174.
31 “I would have . . . court”: Ivor Davis, “Alfred Hitchcock Abhors Violence, Prefers Suspense”: Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1969, 26.
32 “Many great English . . . English”: Hitchcock and Wertham, “A Redbook Dialogue,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, 152.
32 “crime mystique in . . . everyone”: R. Allen Leider, “Interview: Alfred Hitchcock,” in Sidney Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), 260.
32 “Much perturbation appears . . . weeks”: “From the archive, 24 January 1920: Is there a crime wave in the country?” Guardian, January 24, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/jan/24/crime-wave-uk-1920. Originally published in the Manchester Guardian, January 24, 1920.
32 he claimed to . . . lessons: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 285 of 5468, Kindle.
34 “an ingrained racial sense of drama”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Murder–with English on It,” New York Times Magazine, March 3, 1957, 17.
34 American gangsters and . . . crimes: AH to Anita Colby, May 1, 1957, AHC MHL.
34 “it’s a matter . . . criminals don’t”: Leider, “Interview: Alfred Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 260.
34 “people get blasted . . . style”: Ibid.
35 “the evident trend . . .
