An interview with Alfred Hitchcock – answers

Section 1

1. 3 months
2. he doesn’t know/a strange phenomenon
3. not really, only on a sick mind
4. giving information
5. gives an extra dimension
6. relief

Section 2

1. Bel Air
2. Simple
3. Dover sole sent from London
4. A blue suit, white shirt and black socks
5. Tidy
6. He ‘planted’ an elderly lady at a dinner party to see how people would react/ he pretended to be a secret admirer of a female television presenter.

Section 3

1. 1923
2. 4 or 5
3. Germany in 1925
4. The lodger
5. Because they expected it to be badly received (which it was)
6. The difference between failure and success

Section 4

1. Because films are made in the cutting room
2. By making the film in one shot
3. 1 hour and 20 minutes
4. not written in/an afterthought/cutting and editing
5. 3 shots/a police siren

Section 5

1. 45
2. 40 are blonde
3. it’s traditional to have a blonde leading lady and a brunette leading man
4. They can look like ‘school marms’ but are astonishing in ‘perspicacity and sex’ (they are not as they first appear)
5. They look passionate but aren’t
6. Ingrid Bergman