“Nowadays, the work of Alfred Hitchcock is admired all over the world. It is the strict demands he makes on himself and on his art that have made him a great director.” This dosage of humor and suspense has made Hitchcock one of the most commercial directors in the world (his films regularly bring in four times what they cost). All his life he has worked to make his own tastes coincide with the public', emphasizing humor in his English period and suspense in his American period. Alfred Hitchcock, who is a remarkably intelligent man, formed the habit early-right from the start of his career in England-of predicting each aspect of his films. While Bresson, Tati, Rossellini, Ray make films their own way and then invite the public to join the "game," Renoir, Clouzot, Hitchcock and Hawks make movies for the public, and ask themselves all the questions they think will interest their audience. For Hitchcock as for Renoir, as for that matter almost all American directors, a film has not succeeded unless it is a success, that is, unless it touches the public that one has had in mind right from the moment of choosing the subject matter to the end of production. There is nothing intrinsically better about one or the other it's simply a matter of different approaches. For the former, cinema is an art of spectacle for the latter, it is an individual adventure. “There are two kinds of directors those who have the public in mind when they conceive and make their films and those who don't consider the public at all.
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