And so he enjoyed, he enjoyed this idea of acting, and his persona and the image that he had crafted. And he was a wonderful mimic, he enjoyed acting, he could stand up - especially in the silent era, if an actress wondered, you know, how she should behave in a certain dinner party scene - he could stand up and flounce around the room and show her precisely. "He started doing that early in his career by appearing in cameos, and increasingly funnier cameos, that we began to expect to see him in in his films. On Hitchcock's television persona and trafficking in self-parody as host of Alfred Hitchcock Presents You could not ask him a question he hadn't been asked, and he was bored, he was glum, he was not in good physical condition, and he must have known the film was his last and it would not be very good." I should add, Robert, he was not funny when I met him on the set of Family Plot, standing in the long line of journalists who came from all around the world to watch him make his final movie, which everyone expected it to be. He is best at the very beginning and at the end when he's allowed to be funny, as Hitchcock, and everyone who knows him would tell you, was enormously funny. "Well, I think Anthony Hopkins really brings people into the film. On Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hitchcock I could see how it could be inspired - in other words, I think it's maybe a very clever move on the part of the screenwriter - but he wasn't that kind of person, and it's linked in the film to this idea that behind this guy who makes films about serial murderers is a guy who has violent impulses, which was not the case." He was a very - you know, his dignity and his control were very important to him and to his personality. "You know, at various times, the film crosses the line for me from entertainment into something that really I think diminishes Hitchcock's genius, and this was one of the instances. On the scene in the film in which Hitchcock terrifies actress Janet Leigh into giving a believable performance in Psycho's infamous shower scene And they were creative partners, although the film goes way overboard to depict Alma as the person who bails Hitchcock out of every crisis that he's supposedly undergoing." In fact, I always say it's one of the few happy marriages I know of in Hollywood that lasted for 50-plus years. "It's not true that they had strife in their marriage. On Hitchcock's relationship with his wife, Alma, which is portrayed in the film as a creative partnership strained by jealousy He had two houses, he had vast savings, so that aspect of the movie where he's - where they're constantly worrying about money to the point of talking about, you know, saving on groceries, is foolish." If you can take out a mortgage on your house and make a movie in Hollywood - then or now, no director did who was under studio contract. On whether Hitchcock actually took out a mortgage on his Hollywood house to finance the making of Psycho So it was one of the brilliant deals of all time, and Hitchcock and his then-agent, Lew Wasserman, foresaw its value to them." Hitchcock forwent his salary and agreed to take everything on the back end, including percentages and ownership of Psycho. "Yes, he was under contract at Paramount, and the studio was horrified at the possibility of this lurid film being made. On whether Hitchcock, did, in fact, have trouble getting Psycho made, as the film suggests Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson), Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) toast to Psycho in Hitchcock.
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