In an interview on Film Directing

Your final book is about another great director, Hitchcock by François Truffaut. Is he another hero?

Yes, Hitchcock is a great artist, but he hides his art behind these thrillers. It’s like a gut punch when you see something like Psycho for the first time. I remember watching that when I was about 12 and just walking about the house feeling completely torn apart and not knowing what the hell I had just seen. So hearing Truffaut, who is another one of my favourite directors, talking to Hitchcock and having this conversation where they reassess his career for the first time and start to talk about his career in terms of art rather than just entertainment, is fascinating. It is one of the best books on film ever written.