In one of the best known stories of the pair’s partnership, it was Alma who spotted Janet Leigh blink after she was presumably lying dead on the bathroom floor in a close-to-final cut of PSYCHO, sparking a quick re-edit just before the movie went out to preview.

“I wouldn’t say ‘I become Hitchcock’. I don’t do that, because I’d go mad. You can’t become anyone, but you just try to find a way to balance it so as to not make a caricature. I felt director Sacha Gervasi had unlocked the story that no one else had previously done”–Anthony Hopkins

In the world of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, chaos, danger and sinister evil hide in the shadows of his characters’ ordinary lives. But what about Hitchcock’s own everyday life? The consummately skilled director carefully cultivated a public persona – constructed out of his portly silhouette and macabre wit – that managed to keep his inner psyche […]

Like many people, Day-Lewis was initially familiar with Lincoln only in broad strokes, mostly through speeches like The Gettysburg Address. “But as a human being, I had little sense of him whatsoever until I began to learn,” he says.

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence–Spielberg