:59:03
"I really wept when I should, and I -"
:59:05
And he said, "Alright. Print the
second one as well. Yeah, that's fine."
:59:09
And then when I saw the movie,
of course, you never see the scene.
:59:12
(Chuckles) You only hear the scene.
:59:14
It's Bruce Dern listening
to the people in the kitchen.
:59:17
You never see it. So, that explained it.
:59:21
He loved the risqué,
:59:23
and that's why he liked me
in Family Plot,
:59:26
because I threw caution to the wind,
so to speak, and was unpredictable.
:59:30
He did never know
what I was going to do next,
:59:32
but he knew it was going
to be in his frame.
:59:35
If I'm sitting here and talk to you,
and I want to talk to you like this.
:59:38
You're out of the shot, half out of
the shot, because his frame ends here.
:59:42
So, if you put your hand here,
it's going off screen.
:59:44
And he let's you know that
right at the beginning.
:59:46
He says,
"You have no room for movement."
:59:48
"But within the room
you have, change dialogue,
:59:52
do whatever you want to do,
just make it interesting."
:59:55
He laughed out loud
in the hamburger-eating scene,
:59:58
where she and I are talking on
the phone - talking to the bad guy.
1:00:01
Two times I made him laugh out loud,
so we had to do it over.
1:00:04
That was one scene, and the other
scene was I threw in a line
1:00:07
when we're going down
the mountain in the car.
1:00:09
The car is going off the road,
we have no brakes.
1:00:12
The guy's tried to kill us
by screwing our brakes up,
1:00:14
and she's climbing all over me,
and I threw in that line,
1:00:17
-"God, I gotta get off this road."
- (Horn Blaring)
1:00:19
- I gotta get off this road.
- And he just laughed out loud.
1:00:26
(Black) He must have known
I was sort of, like, good with English.
1:00:28
He was always testing me.
He said to me,
1:00:32
(Imitating Hitchcock) "Your work today
was very perspicacious, Miss Black."
1:00:38
"Oh, perspicacious.
Doesn't that mean 'keenly perceptive'?"
1:00:42
"I was being keenly perceptive today?"
1:00:44
"Is that what you mean, Mr Hitchcock?"
1:00:46
(Imitating Hitchcock) "Yes!
You were keenly perceptive today."
1:00:50
"Your work was keenly perceptive."
1:00:52
Alfred Hitchcock, obviously, had
always appeared in his own pictures,
1:00:56
and one of the first things
one would ask is,
1:00:59
Where are you going to want
to appear?"