Still, good as this book is, that it would make an excellent documentary is hardly a foregone conclusion. Truffaut felt Hitchcock didn’t need help, he didn’t need to be compared to Racine, he just needed to be described accurately.”
“He wanted to correct the American image of Hitchcock as a light entertainer, but he also wanted to correct overly abstract French formulations that removed Hitchcock from the circumstances in which the films were made. The goal of all this, as Jones said when the film debuted at Cannes, was to change America and the world’s perception of Hitchcock. One reason this interview proved so special was that, as French director Olivier Assayas says, to Truffaut this was no peripheral project, it was “an essential part of his body of work,” something he put as much time and preparation into as one of his films.
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