By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'