Hitchcock

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  • Simon & Schuster | 
  • 368 pages | 
  • ISBN 9780671604295 | 
  • October 1985
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Chapter 1


FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT. Mr. Hitchcock, you were born in London on August 13, 1899. The only thing I know about your childhood is the incident at the police station. Is that a true story?


ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Yes, it is. I must have been about four or five years old. My father sent me to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked me in a cell for five or ten minutes, saying, "This is what we do to naughty boys."


F.T. Why were you being punished?


A.H. I haven't the faintest idea. As a matter of fact, my father used to call me his...

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