:37:01
And he would relate to Bill Batliner,
"This is the guy,
:37:04
but I want him different
or I want him taller."
:37:07
Or he was to be sweeter,
he has to be tougher-looking.
:37:10
And if you think about
all of the Hitchcock pictures,
:37:12
he really had
very distinguishable people.
:37:16
And so many of them look the same,
whether it be Grace Kelly,
:37:20
followed by Tippi Hedren,
they were the same type of women
:37:24
and the same type of romantic men.
:37:27
And he was deviating a little bit here,
but that's what he was looking for.
:37:30
He knew what he wanted.
And so, we cast the picture.
:37:33
(Sobbing) You ain't afraid of a little bit
of lightning, are you? Huh?
:37:39
When I met him in '63,
when we were doing Marnie,
:37:43
I was the flashback sequence
in Marnie, so...
:37:48
we shot on another stage from the stage
that Tippi and Sean Connery
:37:51
and everybody was working on,
which was the main stage,
:37:53
and he would come over
to the stage I was on.
:37:56
And he shot the flashback
sequence with a huge lens.
:37:59
It was a German lens
that looked like a light bulb,
:38:02
and what it did was it distorted
everything in the foreground,
:38:06
but made everything
in the background sharp focus.
:38:10
And so, it was neat because
I had Mr Hitchcock to myself.
:38:14
He had no other
distractions except me.
:38:16
So, he really took time
to get to know me a little bit.
:38:19
And every year, then, he made sure
I did a guest-starring appearance
:38:23
on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
:38:25
You call me Jesse, and you say,
:38:28
"Jesse, I'd like to know
what you done to that woman?"
:38:32
- No.
- (Menacing Laugh)
:38:34
And 12 years went by,
and he was casting Family Plot.
:38:39
I wasn't the first choice.
I think Al Pacino was the first choice.
:38:42
And Mr Hitchcock
didn't like to pay actors.
:38:45
And he was very upset that he had to
pay Julie Andrews and Paul Newman
:38:49
$750,000 apiece to do Torn Curtain,
and he never got over that.
:38:55
Now, wait a minute, Blanche.
Did you say ten big ones?
:38:59
- Mm-hmm.
- Ten thousand?