Notorious

“Now, Notorious. Why do I choose Notorious? That staircase sequence, you count the steps and he has to cut five or six times: points of view, tracking with them, wide, the Nazis arriving, coming out of the study. That is such a precise film. He was very, very concerned about rhythm. Final sequence. Watch it.”

“And then, okay, there’s Notorious. My teacher at film school, one of them, was Andrew Sarris, one of the great critics of all time, and we spent six months on this movie. Every single week we would look at a little bit more of it, a little bit more, and really tried to break down and understand Hitchcock’s process and system, which is truly brilliant. He was a master.”

“These I'm taking for Dad, Notorious and Rebecca. My dad raised me on Hitchcock. This always hits and I'm going to bring it right to him.”

“Notorious. Incredible cover art by the way. It’s an original piece of pencil art that’s photorealistic, and the composition is so awesome and references this moment in the film where, for me, just evoking it, seeing the art, gives me chills. I don’t think there’s a movie for me that is a more perfectly tuned Rube Goldberg machine of tension. The party scene in Notorious, in particular, where you start out with this crane shot from a balcony... And you zoom in... All the way into her hand.”

“Notorious, Hitchcock's Notorious. I think it's a masterpiece. Grant falls in love with Ingrid Bergman in like a shot. They're in Rio and there's like a scene on a hill and that's the movie going, 'Okay, they're in love now, can we move on with the story?' I'll give you one scene where they fall in love and then we're moving on with the story and the audience just accepts it. Whereas now you could never do that.”

“Là je tombe sur Notorious. Notorious d'Hitchcock avec Bergman. Si vous avez la chance de ne pas l'avoir vu, quand vous découvrirez la scène sur le banc public entre Cary Grant et Bergman et puis quand vous découvrirez le baiser dans la chambre, c'est chouette, vous penserez à moi. Esthétiquement c'est purement et simplement une splendeur. Utilisation du décor exceptionnel, tout est fait en fond en transparence et ça c'est extraordinaire.”