Hitchcock \ Truffaut Page #3

they started their conversation.

(CASSETTE RECORDING)

HITCHCOCK:
Well, let me check with

him and see if he's running yet.

(CLEARS T HRO AT)

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

HITCHCOCK:
You started?

You're up?

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

HITCHCOCK:
All right, you're

running now, huh? Okay, fine.

We are now on the air.

(LAUGHS)

(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

WOMAN". Your type of picture?

(TRUFFAUT CONTINUES SPEAKING)

WOMAN:
People get enjoyment

but pretend not to be fooled.

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING)

WOMAN:
They sulk,

they begrudge...

They give their

pleasure grudgingly.

HYYCHCOCK'. Yes. Well...

WOMAN:
When I say pleasure, I don't

mean amusement. I mean their enjoyment.

HYYCHCOCK:

They are obviously...

They're going to sit there

and say, "Show me!"

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

HITCHCOCK:
They expect to anticipate-

"I know what's coming next- "

I have to say, "Do you?"

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

HYYCHCOCK:
Yes,

but you see, to me,

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

plausibility for

the sake of plausibility

does not help, you know.

(HORN HONKING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

(BIRDS SCREECHING)

(GIRL SHRIEKING)

HYYCHCOCK:
I have a favorite little

saying to myself, "Logic is dull."

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

(TRUFFAUT CONTINUES SPEAKING)

WOMAN:
Is it possible now

for us to define suspense?

That is to say, are there

many forms of suspense?

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING)

WOMAN:
People believe,

uh, somewhat naively...

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING)

...that suspense is when one is afraid.

Which is wrong.

HITCHCOCK:
No, no.

In the film Easy Virtue...

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

HYYCHCOCK:
...a young man

was proposing to this woman.

(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)

She wouldn't give an answer,

she said, "I'll call you up

when I get back around 12:00."

And all I showed was the operator

on this telephone switchboard.

(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)

That girl is in suspense!

And she was

relieved at the end,

so that the suspense

was over.

The woman said, "Yes."

The suspense doesn't

always have fear in it.

(TRUFFAUT SPEAKING FRENCH)

FINCHER:

He talks about things,

contextualizing what the

work of a director truly is

at its most fundamental

and most simple.

HYYCHCOCK:
Emotionally,

the size of the image...

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

is very important.

You're dealing with space.

(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)

You may need space

and use it dramatically.

(WHIRRING)

When the girl shrank

back on the sofa,

I kept the camera back

and used the space

to indicate the nothingness

from which she was shrinking.

FINCHER:
If you have

some kind of understanding

of color and design

and light...

Directing is

really three things.

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