hitch reveals2 | blackbirds

Until suddenly you hear the patter of the feet. And all the birds went up.

And somebody said to me afterwards, “what happened to that shot of the children when they went down the steps out of the school?” I said, “There was none.” “Ohh, there must have been, there must have been.” So it was making the audience carry the theme in their mind, you see.

(Interview with Alfred Hitchcock by William Everson, 1972. Transcribed by Gina Frisken 2014)

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