Poor Tippi, no wonder she takes care of big cats. Bird's are freakin scary.

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A person can be both at the same time.

I looove his movies.

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I was once confronted with this very question for a film class final, and was forced to admit that aside from Tippi Hedren, there was little surviving evidence that he actively hated women. In fact, he frequently had female characters in difficult situations who admitted to getting there under their own volition, like Eve Kendall in North by Northwest, Alice White in Blackmail, or Dr. Petersen in Spellbound. They were often feminist in their actions, choosing their sexuality and their danger. Frenzy, I thought, was one of the few that wasn't, that had no surviving heroine and no good resolution. It's hateful to watch, too. Psycho managed to be much more frightening and less titilliating.

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either way, he's still a film genius.

and notorious remains my fave movie of all time.

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If you saw his films without credits then you heard about the kind of person he was, it would make no difference. He'd just be some random ass out there in the universe, unconnected to the movies you love.

Or, to put it another way, is a piece of art any less interesting if nobody tells you who made it?

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