Alfred Hitchcock, said director François Truffaut, was “an artist of anxiety”. Everything made him anxious: as a baby he was terrified by an aunt who put her face up against his and made cooing noises; in Hollywood he refused to cross the studio floor in case a stranger tried to speak to him. He suffered from…
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