Family Plot
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He just loved her and would tell
all these wonderful stories with her.

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I sat and heard these wonderful stories.
He never told the same story twice.

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The nice thing was that he understood
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the parent-child relationship,
director to actor.

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I also, again, was a novice.
I had very little film experience.

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(Kazanjian) One of the things he did
at the very last minute,

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which was quite unusual for Hitchcock,
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was to really take away the set
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that it was originally designed in,
or the period and location.

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Hitchcock had been famous
for travelling the world

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and really opening up
locations in film making.

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And he said to me,
"I want to take away anything

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that said Northern California."
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"I don't want any names on police cars.
I don't want names on badges."

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"I want you to investigate
every person's name in the screenplay

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and make sure that that person
really doesn't exist."

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"And if he does, change it."
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"I want it no city."
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And he never gave me
an explanation for that.

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But it was a challenge to change it
so that it became a nondescript city.

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We shot in San Francisco,
we shot a great deal on the stages,

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but it was nondescript.
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The first day, I was supposed to
meet Mr Hitchcock up in his office

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and show him the costumes
for the film.

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Except that I wasn't wearing
the costume, I was carrying it.

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And, of course,
in the '70s, you had layers.

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So, I sort of had a big black hat on
and I had a little suit.

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And then under the suit was something
and something with something else.

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So I met him and I said,
"This isn't the costume for the movie."

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"This is just what I was wearing."
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He said,
(Imitating Hitchcock) "Oh, thank God."

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"I thought this was going to be a movie
about a nightmare." (Chuckles)

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(Devane) I grew up watching him
on television

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introducing his television show
every week.

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And the first day I went to the set
they were shooting blue screen.

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I came out of the theatre,
so I had not done any movies,


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