Renowned as the “master of suspense”, in 1964 Alfred Hitchcock told the BBC why it was his skill at playing with the audience’s emotions and expectations that kept them glued to the screen.
“I believe in putting the horror in the mind of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen,” film director Alfred Hitchcock told the BBC in 1964, when asked how he perfected his uncanny ability to keep cinema audiences on the edge of their seats.
Source: ‘This will make them scream’: Alfred Hitchcock on his film-making secrets