After all these years, the one essential work on Hitchcock remains François Truffaut’s series of interviews with him, originally published as a book in 1967.

Chabrol's austerity as a director has kept him from becoming the kind of sentimental favorite his colleague Francois Truffaut was in this country.

Hitchcock himself claimed to be displeased with the ending in his famous interview with Francois Truffaut, describing a scene that was never shot.