:04:01
I did not read the script.
:04:04
They said,
"He wants to tell you the script."
:04:06
So I went and I sat down
opposite him at a desk
:04:11
and he proceeded to tell the story.
:04:14
And he told the story
like no one else has ever told a story.
:04:18
He used anything on his desk as a prop,
:04:22
whether it was a glass
or a pencil or a book,
:04:26
to make a sound, do sound effects.
:04:29
He'd do steps. (Footsteps)
:04:31
He'd do anything he could
as a storyteller
:04:34
to lure you into his story.
:04:36
And he told that story so beautifully
:04:40
that I was just absolutely mesmerised.
:04:43
And when I finally saw the film,
:04:46
I said, "I've seen this film."
:04:49
"I saw it in his office."
:04:51
And I really meant it.
:04:56
I went out to California
:04:59
and I was shown into a big
waiting room at Universal.
:05:03
I was sitting there waiting,
:05:05
and then the producer
of that film, Jack Skirball,
:05:08
came walking
through this crowded room,
:05:11
spotted me, came over and said,
"Is your name Cronyn?"
:05:14
I said, "Yes," and he said, "Oh, dear."
:05:17
"I'm so sorry. I think we've
brought you here under false illusions."
:05:21
"You are much too young."
:05:23
"However, you're here,
so you'd better meet Mr Hitchcock."
:05:26
And eventually I was shown
into the presence,
:05:29
and there sat Hitch,
all 300 pounds of him.
:05:32
He was at his very heaviest then.
:05:36
He had his hands tucked
under his armpits like that
:05:39
with his thumbs straight up,
I remember that.
:05:42
He started right in by saying,
"Have you been in Sonoma County?"
:05:47
And I said, "No, sir."
:05:49
He said,
Well, it's in Northern California."
:05:51
"It's the heart of
the wine-growing district."
:05:54
"At the end of the shooting each day,
:05:57
we will walk out into the vineyards,
we will seize the bunches of grapes,