Word: hitchcocked
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...HITCHCOCK: No. He doesn't. The Hollywood cameraman really doesn...
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...HITCHCOCK: I have achieved a long-felt desire on my part about the use of color. As you know, many of the films you see are not color films; they're colored films. There's an excess of color, and they're brilliantly lit, and they have on what they call a Hollywood gloss. In other words, there's a lack of reality about them...
...HITCHCOCK: No. I think that's the kind of thing one reverts to by instinct. The very first time I used that shot -- shooting down a stairwall -- was in a film I made, The Lodger, in 1926. And of course you didn't have sound in those days...
...HITCHCOCK: As a matter of fact, that effect first came to me at the Chelsea Arts Ball in London, about 2 A.M., when after many libations everything seemed to get further and further away. I remembered that effect when I first came to America to make Rebecca...